Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    make additions from time to time; that, at length, so many cases, impartially collected, may be brought to- gether, as shall justify entire confidence in the inferences to be made from them. Ten hospitals, under the care of honest physicians, may settle the questions discussed in this work within five years, so that our posterity will not for ages be able to make any material correction in the answers. Seasons and epidemics will vary no doubt; but the general laws will be found the same, and little else would remain for future ages than to settle the allowance to be made for disturbing forces.