Observations on pulmonary consumption, or, An essay on the Lichen Islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / by J.B. Regnault, M.D.

  • Huguenin, Moses, 1756-1819.
Date:
1802
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    when the use of it is refrained from. RauHn regards it as pernicious in every stage of Phthir sis, and assures us that it cannot fail to do harm, both when tubercles are forming, and when the suppuration is established. He de- clares, that it is more difficult to remedy the bad effects which milk produces in pulmonary Phthisis, thap in any other disease. The phy- sicians of Breslaw very' correctly observe, in the collection of their observations, ** That milk can never produce good effects when there are indurations, tubercles, scirrhi, &c. in the Lungs/' Bennet, a celebrated English Physician, forr bids the use of milk to the consumptive, in his treatise intitled, Theatrum tabidorujn. Morton, an oracle of modern medicine, in chronic disorders of the breast, is by no means the advocate of this remedy. , Desault a Physician of Bordeaux, Junker, and Bordeu have proscribed it in their practice. In a word, many skilful Practitioners of our days, who had been educated in an entire confidence in the admirable virtues of milkj^ have absolutely renounced its use. Is it not possible^