Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr.

  • Kerr, George
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical sketches ... / by George Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * 113 means of a syringe, with great advantage, and slight shocks of electricity have pro¬ duced the best effects. Whether galvanism may not also prove a successful remedy in such cases, remains to be ascertained ; but it appears probable, that by judicious ma¬ nagement, it will become a powerful agent in restoring suspended animation. Nothing can be more remote from the / '' intentions of the writer of these observa¬ tions, than to impute blame to practition¬ ers, who having met with cases of the na¬ ture described, have not tried the means in former times found efficacious. A com¬ plete change of physiological theory, has in some instances essentially altered medi¬ cal practice, and led to the total neglect of authors who held opinions different from those at present entertained. Facts, how-
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