Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
Date:
1891
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    Brand has recently presented to us. The evidence is before us, clear and incontrovertible ; upon our conscientious, fearless, and unbiassed judgment rests the weal or woe of those who commit their lives into our keeping. The Fatal Expectant Plan. What a name this is for the plan that prevails in Boston, as well as in New York and throughout the country, viz., that of treating the sympt07ns instead of the disease, and practically by drugs alone. It expects, in every case, at least the traditional twenty-one days' run of the fever, with more or less delirium; and, of course, so long as this is regarded as the regular thing, something that: cannot be prevented, the doctor and nurse and friends rest content during the entire siege, amply- satisfied and grateful if only the precious life is not lost at last, when, sad to say, it is the treatment^ so outspokenly denounced by the unimpeachable authoi-ities herein quoted, which transforms an easily curable ailment into a dangerous and often fatal disease. On the other hand, the Brand system, if I may so style it, expects convalescence in a very few days. By helpful instead of depleting measures, we reduce the temperature to near the normal