Hydropathy as applied to acute disease : illustrated by cases / by T.R. Armitage.

  • Thomas Armitage
Date:
1852
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Credit: Hydropathy as applied to acute disease : illustrated by cases / by T.R. Armitage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    candour to objections I ventured to bring for- ward, or discuss them with greater liberality. I therefore soon established myself almost entirely at the Charite. The treatment of typhus fever by so eminent a physician as Schonlein engaged my attention in an especial manner, for in aU the great cities and towns in Germany, Berlin, Frankfort, Dresden, Vienna, this disease is always more or less prevalent, and is sometimes dreadfully fatal, and interesting cases are almost always to be found in their large hospitals. I had another powerful motive impelling me to give my best attention to the remedies em- ployed in Germany against typhus, for during the winter of 184)7—1848, while physician's assistant in one of the large London hospitals, I was not satisfied with the success of any of the usual methods of treatment, compared, at least, with the results obtained by Dr. Currie, as detailed in his admirable work on the treatment of fever by cooling the surface of the body. I had much wished for a good opportunity of testing, not only Currie's practice, but also the effects of the treatment recommended in more B 2
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