A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb.

  • Balbirnie, John, 1810-1895.
Date:
[1836?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the organic diseases of the womb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Preparing for Publication, by the same Author. ON THE USE AND NECESSITY OF THE COPIOUS AND FREQUENT BLOOD-LETTINGS IN THE COMMENCEMENT OF ACUTE DISEASES; THE RESULTS OF THE PRACTICE AT THE HoPITAL DE LA CHARITE, PARIS, (PROF. BOUILLAUD's CLINIQUE), COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE OTHER HOSPITALS AND SERVICES. The prejudices against blood-letting in the diseases in question, by which the vast body of vigorous youth are mowed down — the timid use of the lancet, and the Brownonian system of stimu- lants for a factitious weakness—the result of the engorgement of the organs essential to life—have immolated more victims, in the same space of time, than all the wars of Caesar and Napoleon Preface.