An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden.

  • Soden, John Smith, 1780-1863.
Date:
1854
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Credit: An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    useful.; .where pui-ging had been usedjit was sometimes snccessful. .,'Mi3.tliosaoases,,be^say;^,,wJii,G]x^;nded fatally, blood-letting?restored or preserved .tlie p^e of reason, rendered death easy, /and retarded the putrei faction of the body oJp reply^.t^^-thpse.^ho.. thought he had bledwtooi :Copiously, uh^j SWi (iidjnoit.lose a single patient whom;,I iblediseven times or more in this fever. As: la .further [proof that I idid n,oit, draw an ounce of blood too much, itvwiU only be necessary to add that haemorrhages frequently, o,(?cu^e^i after a third, a foiutih, and, in one instance, afte;ri, a, ;Si:^th bleeding had been used ; and, further, that J noit, a siQgle death occurred from natural haemorrhages in the first stage of the disorder., j lA, |Woman, ;v^ho had been bled, awoke the night following in ,a ib^jthj^gf her blood, which had flowed from the, orificei in her arm. The next day she was free: from. , ipaui ,,;an,d ,jf^yerf There were many recoveries from i similar accidents, also some recoveries from copious natural hsemoiThages in the more advanced stages of, the disorder, particu- larly when they occurred from , the j stomach and bowels. One patient, who ; had discharged , at least four pounds of blood, from her stomach, without a pulee, and with scarce a symptom that encouraged a hope of hfe, was, the next day, out of danger. Dr. Rush afterwards published/.iA Defence of Blood- letting,''' in which he says, An ignorance of the quantity of blood which has been drawn by design, or lost by accident, has contributed very much to encourage prejudices against blood-letting. Mi', Cline * Medical Inquiries, and ObscrvatiouH Vol. IV., Page 235.