Hints on the pathology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of thoracic consumption / by J.C. Hall.

  • John Charles Hall
Date:
1856
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Credit: Hints on the pathology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of thoracic consumption / by J.C. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MOETALITY FEOM CONSUMPTION. three hundred and ten dies annually from thoracic consumption. With a fact so awful before us it is certainly the duty of every practising physician and surgeon, and more especially of those holding appointments in public institutions, to inquire if thoracic con- sumption admit of cure, and, if so, will cod- liver oil—a remedy which has now for some years been extensively employed by the pro- fession in its treatment—prevent the depo- sition of tubercle; and when tubercles are already deposited, what influence does it exert upon them? From the results of a long and very extensive exhibition of the oil in private and dispensary practice, and from what has been gleaned from the experience of others, there can be no hesitation in stating that much benefit has arisen from its employment, even in some of the worst and most advanced cases of phthisis; not that I would advise an implicit faith to be placed in this medicine alone for the treatment of the disease. The administration of cod-liver oil is only a part of that plan of treatment which requires to be most steadily persevered in, and which, in detailing certain cases, an endeavour will be made to explain. To restore the patient to that healthy condition of body from which there is a departure in the tuberculous diathesis ; to render the tubercles already deposited harmless, to promote their expulsion, and to prevent a further deposition of the same kind of matter, is Ui b ft > w CO tc M O tzj b O W o u> o o 00 t 00 cn CO CO 00 C7I o: o VI 00 05 05 00 CO O 00 05 to CO o 00 CO 1—» 00 o o VI 05 CO 00 ox Qo 05 ox Ox VI C5 05 05 H-* CO 00 W jO Ox H- VI CO t—* GO o Or CO Ot to VI O VI 1—» CO GO O 00 00 1—• to to 05 00 ^CO 00 CO CO VI 00 Or »—i CO OX 00 05 o Ox CO Ox to 1—> »u o 00 CO CO o TABLE I,
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