A critical exposure of the ignorance and mal-practice of certain medical practitioners, in their theory and treatment of disease : likewise observations on the primary cause of ailments, connected with the discoveries of the author : to which is affixed, a commentary on the medical evidence in the cases of the late Miss Catherine Cashin and Mrs. Lloyd, together with the testimonials on which the author rests his claim to public confidence / by John St. John Long.

  • Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A critical exposure of the ignorance and mal-practice of certain medical practitioners, in their theory and treatment of disease : likewise observations on the primary cause of ailments, connected with the discoveries of the author : to which is affixed, a commentary on the medical evidence in the cases of the late Miss Catherine Cashin and Mrs. Lloyd, together with the testimonials on which the author rests his claim to public confidence / by John St. John Long. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    indicated the approach of mortification. Then how ic inaccurate, and therefore unfortunate, was the evidence of Mr. Brodie! Besides, there is an unaccountable disagreement between the opinion which that gen- tleman says he entertained of the condition of the wound, and the treatment which he adopted. Here is an exact copy of Mr. Brodie's prescription :— ' R. Potass. Carbon. 5ij ; Spir. myriot, 5iij; Aq. menth. sativ. siii ss. Tr. Opii. m z. ' M. ft. mist, cujus capt. sextam partem sextis horis cum coch. ampl. succi limonis in effervescent. < B. C. Brodie.' ' For Miss Cath. Cashin.' How squares such a prescription with ' mortification? produced by violent and still existing inflammatory ac- Hon ? Beyond all question, Mr. Brodie must con- fess that he was strangely in error, either in his thera- peutics, or in his pathology; and we feel little hesi- tation in asserting that he was wrong in both. Mr. Brodie saw the wound, and was furnished with ocu- lar proof that it was in an active state of suppuration, discharging, indeed, not less than from a pint to a pint and a half of pus daily [Note.—This is not time; no such fact appears on the evidence; Mr. Wakley never saw Miss Cashin alive, therefore he can know nothing of the circumstances or symptoms]; yet he swears on i: two occasions that this highly-vitalized, highly-orga- nized part, was ' mortified; and for the patient la- bouring under the violent, and the almost unparalleled