Observations on pulmonary consumption, or, An essay on the Lichen Islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / by J.B. Regnault, M.D.

  • Huguenin, Moses, 1756-1819.
Date:
1802
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    an entire change in the state and qualities of tlie fluids, will be able to extinguish, absorb and exhaust, if we may use the expression, the very right fomes of the disease* We have seen that the Icelanders, for the greatest part of the year, make it a principal article of their diet. Many authors have pointed it out as a substitute for corn in other parts of the world in times of scarcity; why should not the Physician claim a share in its virtues, since its properties have been shewn to have so powerful an influence over the whole animal oeconomy ? This substance has some- thing so soft and mild, that it forms a new lymph, calculated to replace through the body of the consumptive that renovating juice of which emaciation has deprived him. It furnishes a mild Chyle proper to allay the intestine motion of the blood, or its irregular determination, which supports the predisposition to hasmor- rhage common to young persons threatened with Phthisis. All practitioners agree that a great point in the cure of pulmonary Phthisis, is to produce a harmony in all the diflerent parts of the system. The choice and regulation of the quantity of D 2 mild