A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander.

  • Alexander, Disney, 1769-1844
Date:
[1794]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    64/80 (page 64)
    I 64 ] It is too often urged, as a reafon for changing our practice in the cure of dif- eafes, that becaufe one fet of medicines have proved ineffedtual, others, of an op- pofite tendency, muft do good*; and fince in This reafoning, however, in certain cafes., and to a certain extent, ftill holds good.._It was in this manner that the late illuftrious Dr. Brown reafoned, refpeding the Cure of the Gout. He had been afflided with it himfelf frequently, and had very long and fevere attacks, notwithftanding he ftudioufly adhered to the antifthenic plan, in every refped. Finding that the complaint ra- ther increafed than otherw'ife, he began to doubt the pro- priety of the means which had been adopted, and to con- clude, that an oppofite plan of treatment might produce a different, and, of courfe, a better effect. He lived well and took ftimulants; from which tipie he became better, and continued ever after to be lefs feverely affidlcd than before; the fits were both much more fpeedUy carried off, and he was much lefs frequently attacked by them. In this manner, likew'ife, he reafons rcfpe£ling the nature of the Croup : The following are his owm w'ords on the fubjeft. Speaking of the fymptoms which charaderizc the difeafe, he fays, Confider which of thefe fets of figns precede or accompany the Croup; and w’hethcr its pyrexia be “ fihcnic