Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.

  • Louis Martinet
Date:
1832
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    the most effectual means of arresting its progress. I subjoin a brief analysis of the plan of treatment recommended by Dr. Armstrong in his valuable work on Pulmonary Consump- tion.] [In incipient phthisis, attended with marked constitutional excitement, moderate bleeding is occasionally of benefit; employed under other circumstances, or carried to any great extent, it is decidedly injurious. Powerful counter-irritation on the skin, at an early period of the disease, is likely to be useful, in relieving, if not checking, pthisical symptoms ; but the hopelessness of success, is generally in the mind of the patient, at least, too strong to encourage him to submit to, or the practi- tioner to urge so painful a remedy. With respect to digitalis, the temporary alleviation, sometimes derived from it, is nearly counter- acted by the debility and nervous irritation which it ultimately produces. The mineral acids appear to be of very little use, and by
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