Category: Health & Medicine
I have long formed the opinion that the prevailing method of determining the value of any particular medicine or mode of treatment is essentially faulty. Practitioners, after watching a few cases, form a favourable opinion of this or that mode of procedure; they then publish t...
CASE IV. points precisely in the same direction. In May 1868 I was consulted by a gentleman of 19, whose father died of phthisis. He had been steward on board a packet plying be...
2. Part 2Most remarkable results, however, follow the use of poultices in certain cases—of lupus, for example. A woman attends at my out-patient room with ordinary lupus which, when firs...
1. Part 1I have long formed the opinion that the prevailing method of determining the value of any particular medicine or mode of treatment is essentially faulty. Practitioners, after wa...
6. Part 6=A German Criticism of Lister’s Treatment of Abscesses.=—Dr. W. Rosco publishes a very sharp critique on this plan of treatment, which has lately become so fashionable. He analy...
5. Part 5=The Pressure and Ligature Methods of treating Aneurism.=—In the course of a lecture on aneurism of the femoral artery Mr. Paget, adverting to these two methods, speaks of them...
4. Part 4The preface to this work explains that the author enjoys, at the “Israelitenspital” of Pesth, a considerable field of experience, but is less overburdened with cases than are ma...
7. Part 7TREATMENT OF HÆMORRHOIDS.—Mr. J. Christophers, of Wadebridge, Cornwall, sends us the following note:—“The pain and risk attending operations for the removal of hæmorrhoids, whet...