Fat and blood : and how to make them / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fat and blood : and how to make them / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are others which we cannot for various rea- sons send away to more genial climates, and in such instances we are driven 10 merely watch the slow decline of our patients. I believe that sometimes, and especially in the very earliest stages of consump- tion, my treatment will save a small percentage of such people, but, as yet, I only venture to make the suggestion, and wish distinctly to state that my ex- perience in this form of its usefulness is limited. One of the cases treated got well and remained well. There was every evidence of pulmonary trouble. No. 2 improved enormously in all respects, and relapsed hopelessly, owing to large and repeated bleeding from piles and rectal fissure. No. 3, a male, at 24 was treated by rest and mas- sage without electricity, and improved so as to re- sume his work. He still has slight cough, and has to be careful, and there are, as yet, distinct evidences of inactive disease at the summit of the left lung-. To save further details, I give a brief summary of eight cases of women, all of whom were thin, feeble, ansemic, and vexed with some of the endless variety of pains, aches, and ailments, real, imaginary, or exaggerated by attention, which so constantly mark these cases. 9*
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