A treatise on the use of cod-liver oil in the treatment of chronic rheumatism, scrofula and consumption, bronchitis and asthma, and all diseases of the lungs and throat / by Emery Souther.

  • Souther, Emery.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A treatise on the use of cod-liver oil in the treatment of chronic rheumatism, scrofula and consumption, bronchitis and asthma, and all diseases of the lungs and throat / by Emery Souther. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    result.—[Abridged from the Gazette Medicate, Nov. 9, 1848] [Extract from the 25th Number of the British and Foreign Medical Review.] Dr. Roesch affirms that scrofulous affections are produced by an excess of acid matters in the fluid of the body ; and that Cod-liver Oil is, therefore, one of the most suitable remedies. [From the Providence Medical and Surgical Journal, 1840.] The Oil which Mr. Everett employs, and which he has found an efficacious remedy in tubercular diseases, is of a pale straw color, and all I aim at is to add my testimony to that of others who have successfully employed it. [From the Monthly Journal, 1847.] Dr. Graves corroborates the testimony of those (and, amongst the rest, of Dr. Bennet) who have extolled the use of this medicine in strumous diseases in general. He has seen it do what he never saw any other remedy effect. [From the Medical Times, 1847.] Dr. Willshire says ; There is one agent I must not forget to speak of, viz.,—Cod Liver Oil,—this has lately been much praised. I have administered it in twenty cases, and certainly found benefit from its use. Many persons speak very highly of it indeed. [From the British and Foreign Medical Review.] Dr. Bennett says, that the Laplanders, and the inhabitants of some northern nations, take it habitually, and consider it a delicacy; and even in Shetland, that it is used extensively when fresh, and considered wholesome. The Oil has been used immemorially in some of the northern nations, as a cure for rheumatism. The purified sort, obtained from Mr. Donovan, who has experimented for this purpose, (has a specific gravity 0.934,) is of a pale yellow color. Dr. Brefeld states, that the Oil is not the cause of the diarrhoea which may occur during the use of it, and that it is to the iodine that the Oil owes its efficacy in scrofula; and that the iodine thus occuring in a natural production may be supposed to possess a stronger therapeutic action than when obtained by chemical means. (After allowing that the odorous qualities are so atrocious, it will be no objection, for when it is necessary the pa- tient will little trouble himself about what will do him good, and will be willing to swallow any substance which holds out the hopes of cure.)