Treatise on the oleum jecoris aselli, or, cod liver oil, as a therapeutic agent in certain forms of gout, rheumatism, and scrofula : with an appendix for 1847 / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • John Hughes Bennett
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1848
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    PREFACE. The extensive use of the oleum jecorisaselli (cod liver oil) through- out Germany in cases of scrofula, and chronic gout and rheu- matism, together with the encomiums bestowed upon it by several of the most talented and experienced physicians of that country, with whom I have conversed, induced me to fix my attention on its thera- peutic properties. During an eighteen months’ residence in various German states, therefore, I lost no opportunity of attending to cases in which the oil was administered, and consider myself entitled to Bay, that the result of personal observation has confirmed the favour- able report I received respecting it. As I am not aware that it is prescribed to any extent in Great Britain, I have been induced to draw up the present Treatise, in the hope that by making known the researches which have been instituted regarding it, and the good effects which have followed its administration, it may prove as suc- cessful in the hands of British, as it has already done in those of Ger- man practitioners. Before entering into any details connected with this subject, how- ever, I wish to impress upon the profession my general views regard* big its value. It is not to be supposed capable of benefiting invaria- bly any of the diseases for the cure of which it has been so much or even so extravagantly landed; and I make this statement in limine, in order to prevent any exaggerated idea of its virtues that the facts and opinions hereafter to be detailed may induce others to form. There is no remedy which does not demand great practical tact for its successful administration; there is none which does not require great attention to the circumstances which indicate, as well as those which contradict its employment; and none, the action of which may
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