Treatise on the cure of consumption at the north / by D. McNeil.

  • McNeil, D.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Treatise on the cure of consumption at the north / by D. McNeil. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONSUMPTION CURED AT THE NORTH. It is not the design of the writer of this essay, to enter on any new theory, or discussion of the nature of this well-known disease. Science has unfolded, books have described, medical men of all schools have defined its symptoms, nature, and final termination. Unfortunately, for individuals and the race, success in the treatment has not kept pace with a knowledge of the disease. Cases of consumption are on the in- crease, especially in crowded cities, where causes exist, over which medical or hygienic laws, have no control. The first thing that meets the eye of a medical man, grappling with this formidable, and hitherto 'wncon- querable foe, is emaciation, and degeneracy of the physical, and sinking of all the vital powers. The ne- cessity of arresting the disease is evident to all; but