Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders.
- Sanders, James, 1777-1843
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Section iil \ '\ ileasonsfor beliexmg that the Digitalis is admi- i nistered on False Principles. \ THE effects of the digitalis on the heal- i thy constitution precede in this detail those I on the constitution disturbed by disease, i but it is an inversion of the order in which i the facts occurred to my observation; be- \ sides attending, as I have already said, to i what happened in the patients in the Infir- | mary, I had carefully marked the parti- ; Gulars of the following cases, before the ex- \ periments were made on persons in health. ; It seems not improper to mention here, j that the first cases, which I watched, were J those of persons under the care of the first i medical men of this city; I prescribed no medicines, nor did I interfere in the ma- | nagement; I only, for my own instruction, \ noted the symptoms, attended when the ■ medicines were taken, and carefully marked i whatever changes supervened in the pulse, ; ^s well as in the general state of the consti- i tution of the patient. ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21208451_0226.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
