The stoechiological cure of consumption and diseases of the respiratory organs : From Letters to a patient.
- John Francis Churchill
- Date:
- 1893
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Credit: The stoechiological cure of consumption and diseases of the respiratory organs : From Letters to a patient. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![648 of the population, and one death from Consumption to 11'5 deaths from all other diseases.* The proof of the efficiency of my discovery rests, however, not only on the fact of the steady decline of the mortality fi'oni Consumption in England, coincident with the increased use of the Hypophosphites either as a medicine against Phthisis, or as a vital stimulant, but also upon a complete and persistent consensus of medical opinion. Since the publication of the first hasty adverse trials made at the outset of my discovery in 1858 and 1859, all the medical testimony published has been favourable. Not one of the points I had established has been shaken, and many of the sources of error and misapplication of my treatment which I had indicated have been confirmed by other observers. (See Letter Y. in Letters to a Patient.) This was shown again quite recently by several communications made at the meeting of the British Medical Association in 1891. The complete efficiency of the Hypophosphite treatment against Phthisis, within the scientific limits which I had pointed out at the origin, was proved by the results of the cases treated at the * Table showing THE Decbease in the Moktality FIIOM Consumption. 1855. Death to 1 ] n every ,354 persons living. 18fiO. >> jj 390 „ 1865, ) f} 393 „ 1870. 414 „ 1875. 452 „ 1880. f ) t 5:« „ 1885. tt >> 570 „ 1SS9. >i •> 648](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21225928_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
