Diphtheria : its history, pathology, nature and treatment : an essay which received the first prize of the Medical Association of the State of Georgia, June, 1866 / by E.S. Gaillard.

  • Gaillard, E. S. (Edwin Samuel), 1827-1885.
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1867
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    DIPHTHEEIA: ITS HISTORY, PATHOLOGY, NATURE AND TREATMENT. AN ESSA Y WHICH RECEIVED THE FIRST PRIZE OP THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, June, 1866. By E. S. Gaillard, M. D., Richmond, Va. [Reprinted from th* Richmond Medical Journal, 1866.] We have, in this Essay, made it our chief object to elucidate and establish the pathology of the disease which forms its subject, whilst, at the same time, there has been given careful attention to all else of interest and importance connected with it. With the treatment and general history of diphtheria, very many of the Profession are of course familiar, but any one, who has bestowed even a cursory attention upon its literature, can not have failed to perceive the obscure, injurious, and even antagonistic views, that have been offered and received, in regard to its pathology. It is in consequence of this confusion and contradiction, that the disease is still regarded as “ lis sub judice,” and therefore a most appropriate subject for analysis and examination. In preparing this essay, we have sought to give it a practical character, by corresponding with the most distinguished gentlemen, in this branch of the profession, both in America and Europe ; and from more than one hundred autograph letters, we have selected