Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature ... operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented / [Francis Hopkins Ramadge].

  • Francis Hopkins Ramadge
Date:
1834
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Credit: Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature ... operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented / [Francis Hopkins Ramadge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The results which have hitherto attended the treatment of phthisis, have added but little to the reputation of the medical profession. lam fully satisfied, however, from the experience of years in treating this important malady, as well as from the deductions of unremitting pathological research, that it is in our power to adopt a line of practice more scientific, and successful, than that which has hitherto been employed. — Though great attention has been bestowed by several distinguished continental writers, especi- ally by Laennec, Andral, and Louis, on the phy- sical signs and morbid appearances of consump- tion, and notwithstanding cases have been minutely detailed by them in which nature has effected acure, still they seem to me to have had little idea that we cando more than relieve indications purely symptomatic, A modern writer on consumption in this coun- try, the late Dr. Young of St. George’s Hospital, who did not pay that attention to morbid anatomy, so commendable in our Gallic neighbours, but whose opportunities of treating the disease were considerable, favours us with an opinion as to its curability, which is very discouraging. He says, “ Itis probable that without assistance, not one case in a thousand of the disease would recover ;
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