On the frequent spontaneous cure of pulmonary consumption, and the indications furnished by pathology for its rational treatment / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • John Hughes Bennett
Date:
1845
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    ent remedies in order to carry out the indications enumerated. Some of course are more valuable than others, and all demand tact and experience, guided by a perfect knowledge of the physi- cal changes which take place in the lungs. The diflfcrent stages of the disease also will of course require tlie one or the other indi- cation to be followed with greater activity. But I think experience will prove that whenever treatment has been beneficial in phthisis, it will be found to have occurred from its having, either by design or accident, been so directed as to meet the pathological conditions pointed out. One thing at least is certain that they can never be overcome by a blind adherence to one particular remedy. I have had numerous opportunities of seeing individuals among the poor population still carrying on their work with large caverns in the lungs. Many of these I have seen improve on entering an hospital, or on the occurrence of circumstances which have better- ed their condition. I have collected a few which, under the treat- ment recommended, have apparently undergone a complete cure. But as a few cases, in a matter of so much importance, arc quite inadequate to establish the possibility of cure by therapeutic means, I shall not allude to them at present. Whatever opinions may be held, however, with respect to the value of the indications and treatment proposed, it will perhaps be conceded that the facts now brought forward are sufficiently important to warrant renewed trials directed to the curative rather than the mere palliative treatment which is now so prevalent. sdinburgh: printed by stark and company, old assembly close.
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