Facts and conclusions as to the use of alcoholic stimulants in typhus fever / by W.T. Gairdner.

  • William Tennant Gairdner
Date:
1864
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    FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS , AS TO THE 0SE OF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS IN TYPHUS FEVEH By w. T. GAIEDNEE, M.D., Physician to the Royal Infinnai-y, andPro/mor of Practice o/^ysic in the University, Glasgow, Bead to the Medtoo-Chirurgioai, Society oi? Glasgow, ^th January, 1864. The following remarks are so entirely the result of practical expeuence, and so little dependent upon any of the current eories m regard to the physiological and therapeutical action of alcoholic stimulants, that it seems scarcely necessary to sclaim at the outset, any exolusire or extreme views on the f r ’'Wch he bound most emphatically to disclaim, and that is anything in* * hostile or ungenerous criticism as gards the views or practices, of those who may differ from al™i, r “ *“* ““ seriousness, that oholio stamulants are often administered, even in the hands of accomplished and thoughtful physicians’, with farto giel an f r ”■ “i™*»l«tati„n, as being in perfect good faith by persons from whom ho would not will them-1 t lIltM “1, 1 mery one who hears Ins strictures; 2nd, That tlic subject has been loiig.befr hl