Observations on the efficacy of traction in the cure of consumption and asthma : with authentic cases / by D. Cronin.

  • Cronin, Denis.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Observations on the efficacy of traction in the cure of consumption and asthma : with authentic cases / by D. Cronin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following pages are intended to call atten- tion to a new and highly efficacious method of treating Consumption and Asthma. I havqjfgg^ practised this method nearly three years, a'NW? have such unequivocal evidence of its efficacy that I venture to recommend it to public confi- dence. The publicity which I have endeavoured to give to my method, has procured for me the hostility of many who profess to be members of a liberal profession ; and these condemn merely upon opinion, without giving a trial,—and a trial, be it remembered, of a means which is, I may say, almost wholly devoid of danger. But it can hardly be wondered at that the profession, at least a part of it, considering their interests invaded, should array themselves in hostility; when a periodical, pretending to unbounded sway, has descended to all the low