Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation.

  • Pancoast, S. (Seth), 1823-1889.
Date:
1855
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    OPINIONS AND CRITICISMS. MEDICATED INHALATION, &c, &c, &c. Medical men are, as a rule, fearful of. and averse to innovation; they have long considered Consumption as incurable, and that belief has perhaps filled many a too-early dug grave. They require Pelion to be piled upon Ossa in the way of proof. Incredulity, which is never convinced, should be met with sledge-hammer blows in the shape of facts, until the triumph of true science shall be complete.— Kentish (Eng.) Independent. That Inhalation is beneficial and curative must be admitted by all practitioners who have courage and honesty. That it has softened and soothed the path to the grave in those who were rendered incurable by neglect—that in incipient Con- sumption it has restored health and saved life—are facts which no pathologists will deny.—London Literary Journal. Pulmonary Consumption, in certain stages of the disease, is positively curable, and that under the most adverse circumstances it is possible to afford extraordi- nary alleviation of suffering by a judicious use of Medicated Inhalations.—Alfred Beaumont Maddock, M. D., author of Pulmonary Consumption successfully treated by Medicated Inhalations, &c. You must aim to accomplish permanent amendment, and with this view must not be satisfied until you have rectified every disordered function. * * * I can- not explain its remarkable efficacy (Medicated Inhalation) but it is a remedy of real value.—Theophiics Thompson, Physician to the Loudon Hospital for Consump- tion and Diseases of the Chest, author of Clinical Lectures on Consumption &c. The duty a man owes to himself, when he assumes the function of a teacher of truth that concerns the general well-being, is to be grave, earnest and truthful— to appeal only to the sober thought of the thinking community, and to deliver himself of the true convictions of his mind, no matter what prejudices they offend what practices they contradict, what interests they thwart.—Dr. Balbirnie.