A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    transmissions, which may for years have been laying dor- mant ;—thus the tubercular predisposition is often called into action from this cause ; and the same remark holds good of other modifications of transmitted predispositions. A solution of quinine, acidulated by aromatic sulphuric acid is advisable for some weeks after the establishment of convalesence ; and medical practitioners will find it salu- tary to take daily a little of the same solution, thereby keeping up the magnetic forces, and in consequence ward- ing ofF an attack of the disease. 4z7i, Yellow Fever. It cannot be successfully disputed, that Yellow Fever is only a modification of bilious, itself a modification of the primitive type : indeed medical writers of the old schools have remarked the analogy existing between this manifes- tation of disease, and the Bilious Remittent. Prof. Dung- lison, Rush, Caldwell, and Ramsay (of Charleston, S. C.) have alike admitted this relation,—a relation which if ad- mitted by the schools, and made authoritative, will be at once an endorsement of the New school philosophy. In the Year 1804, it was observed, in Charleston, that neglected (and oftener maltreated !) intermittents frequent- ly terminated in yellow fever ; and Rush, during the Ep- idemic at the close of the last century, remarked that in- termittent, remittent, bilious, and malignant yellow fever, run into each other, and as the latter modification receded from low and marshy grounds, it became more and more manageable,—the explanation of these facts, to the new school practitioner is simple and rational. Location and its coincidents, influence the man and not the disease so called. The low marshy ground and the swamp atmosphere rapidly