An improvement in the pathology and treatment of small-pox, upon principles which are applicable to all sthenic diseases / [Robert Stevens].

  • Stevens, Robert (Robert Bocking)
Date:
1838
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    IN THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF SMALL-POX. This treatise on Small-pox was read before the royal medical and chirurgical society, in the beginning of the year 1837. But the subject being too abstruse to be caught at a glance, I am induced to place it before the world in a more tangible form, hoping that the principles of treatment, which are somewhat more radical than those in common use, may obtain the atten¬ tion from my scientific brethren, of which they appear to be deserving from the manner in which they have stood the test of experience and practice in iny own hands. In preference to giving any sketch of my own, of the course, symptoms, and the usual prin¬ ciples of the treatment of Small pox, I have taken the following passages from Dr. Mason Goodes Study of Medicine.—(See page 113. vol. 3, 3rd. Edition.) “The disease opens its battery with the usual signs of a febrile cold fit, accompanied with vomiting, and