Cases of patients admitted into the hospital at Bath, under the care of the late Dr. Oliver. : With some additional cases and notes, / by R. Charleton, M.D. physician to the General Hospital. To which are added, Observations on stomach complaints, and the jaundice.

  • Rice Charleton
Date:
M DCC LXXVI. [1776]
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Credit: Cases of patients admitted into the hospital at Bath, under the care of the late Dr. Oliver. : With some additional cases and notes, / by R. Charleton, M.D. physician to the General Hospital. To which are added, Observations on stomach complaints, and the jaundice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] wife, and has nothing elfe thereby to fupport him: We humbly hope the governors and gentlemen of the committee will be pleafed to admit the faid John Stadholme, as a real objedt. Thomas Nicholson, Curate. Difcharged April 28, 1774, incurable. A patient 165 days. NOTE. A True Spina Ventofa feldom, or never, re¬ ceives benefit, but often harm, from the ufe of Bath waters. I fuppofe we were in hopes, that as the cafe was drawn by the curate of the parifh, it might be miftaken ; as other fwellings of the joints often pafs for fpinas, when they are not really fo. When the poor man came, we were not willing to fend him back without a trial of what could be done for him; but the event was as we had reafon to fear it would be. Had this cafe been drawn up by a fkilful phy~ fician, or furgeon, the fick man would probably never have had the trouble to come from his own home. In this defcription no fymptoms are mentioned, which is a great defedl, by which we could not form a right judgment of the cafe. ffp When F
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