The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis : comprising also the causes and prevention of scrofula / by James Copland.

  • James Copland
Date:
1861
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Credit: The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis : comprising also the causes and prevention of scrofula / by James Copland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREPACE. Our knowledge of the pathology of pulmonary diseases, and of their seats and progress, has not hitherto tended greatly to promote the success of .medical treatment. Indeed the only recent advancement in this direction has been the intro- duction of cod-hver oil and other fish oils. With this smgle exception the treatment of Pulmonary Consumption at the present day is nearly the same as that advised by the best medical writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and more particularly by Bennet and Eush. This inference is manifest from the sketch I have exhibited of the treatment recommended in these centmies. Although the means of cure have been enriched by very few additions, pathological and diagnostic progress has furnished more precise informa- tion, whereby the physician is enabled to employ his remedies more appropriately, and hence with more frequent success. Equal advantages, however, to those were formerly obtained from close observation of the history and the existing state of individual cases, and from a due recognition of the effects of medicines — from a rational and an enlightened ex- perience. The treatise on Pulmonary Consumption, being the First Part of this work, appeared in the third volume of my