Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature : operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented.

  • Ramadge, Francis Hopkins, 1793-1867.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature : operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work, preclude me from indulging my wishes on this my favourite theme. On a future occasion, however, it is not improbable that I may have to offer a distinct treatise on this interesting subject. This opportunity will be presented in the work on Diseases of the Chest, to which I have already alluded. However, the reader will find, that I have made an addition to the plates, illustrating the morbid anatomy of the disease. PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT, BY WHICH THE DEVELOPMENT OF TUBERCLES IN THE LUNGS MAY BE PREVENTED IN PERSONS LIABLE THERETO FROM HEREDITARY PREDISPOSITION, OR A CACHECTIC STATE OF THE SYSTEM. CHAP. V. Early in my practice, when consulted by patients of an hereditary bias towards consumption, it was usual with nie to recommend a generous invigorating mode of living, and daily exercise in the open air, with