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First lines of the practice of physic / [William Cullen].

  • William Cullen
Date:
1812
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    can-devise for preventing their) formation, or for © - procuring their resolution, should be employed im-: mediately, even although the patient himself should overlook. er neglect the symptoms, as ee them. to accidental cold et ik cp sid Lovet Wy 907. This is cosy the general: indication ; ; but how it may be executed, I cannot readily: say. I do not know, that, at any time, physicians have proposed any remedy capable of preventing the’ _ formation of tubercles, or of resolving them when formed. The analogy of scrofula givés no assist- ance in this matter. In scrofula the remedies wands are seemingly of most power, are, sea-water,. ‘pe certain mineral waters ; but these have generally proved hurtful in the case of tubercles of'the lungs. I have known several: instances: of) mercury very fully employed for certain az were supposed, at the'same time, to] lave formed, or forming, 1 in their: lungs ; rit though the mercury proved.a cure for those. other diseases; it was of no service in preventing i 2 in some cases seemed to Saige it on. ar bat I is not Picepain's Bane a. RBS fosith h he pu ) being found hereafter, In ‘the mean time, all that at present seems to be within ‘the reach of our art; isto take the measures proper for avoiding’ ‘theins. é eS «$i # ! 4 * ec: “t
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