Diphtheria : its nature, history, causes, prevention, and treatment on hygienic principles; with a resumé of the various theories and practices of the medical profession / By R.T. Trall.

  • Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.
Date:
1862
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    PREFACE. The increasing prevalence of the malady known as diptheria, in various parts of the United States, the disastrous results of drug- medication, and the superior safety and efficacy of the Hygienic or Hygeio-Therapeutic method of treatment, supply the motive for presenting the public with a monograph on the subject. During the last two years I have been written to for information by hundreds of heads of families, in neighborhoods where two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and in one case nine members of the same family have died of this disease, or of the treatment, or of both combined; and everywhere the physicians seem to be in doubt as to its real pathology or proper treatment, while the people are in consternation because of its direful ravages. It has been my fortune to see much of the disease, and to have been in correspond- ence with many of the graduates of my school, as well as many other professional and non-professional persons who have success- fully applied the plan of treatment recommended in this work. And these circumstances have induced me to collate the substance of nearly all that has been published on the subject in this country and in Europe, and to note the facts and statistical data which have been presented to the profession and the public through the medium of the journals of the different medical schools. The work, therefore, here offered to the public is intended not only as an exposition of the true pathology and proper management of dip- theria, but as a record of all that is important which has been ascertained in relation to the disease and its treatment to this date. E. T. T. New Yoek Htqienio Institxttb, No. 15 Laiqht Steebt.