On the special treatment of pulmonary consummption and hooping cough / by John Hastings.

  • Hastings, John, 1805-1875.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the special treatment of pulmonary consummption and hooping cough / by John Hastings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The study of pathology under all these ad- vantages, although it has enabled the physician to make some progress in. investigating the nature of diseases, does not appear to have repaid the labourwhichhas been bestowed upon it by those eminent men who have spent the greater part of their lives in the inquiry. The intimate nature of many diseases is as obscure as ever, and although these researches have been instrumental in bringing about an im- proved treatment, it is still in a very imperfect state. Amidst the various duties which devolve upon the physician, he should always keep steadily in view that his mission is the removal of disease and the mitigation of physical suffering. He should ever remember that in tbe healing art every species of knowledge is subservient to the treatment, and, as this is still so imperfectly understood, it becomes his duty to study the subject with zeal and perse- verance. I have been repeatedly asked how certain agents operate so as to arrest or cure any particular disease] Tell me how opium or quinine realise their well-known effects, and I will answer the query. To say the truth, it
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