Information for the legislature and people of the State of Pennsylvania, and professional men throughout the United States : in relation to various systems of superstitious frauds, and particularly those inflicted upon the credulous by pretended doctors in medicine : together with an explanation of the homoeopathic and other systems of deception : advice to students of medicine, young physicians, the public, &c.

Date:
[1838?]
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Credit: Information for the legislature and people of the State of Pennsylvania, and professional men throughout the United States : in relation to various systems of superstitious frauds, and particularly those inflicted upon the credulous by pretended doctors in medicine : together with an explanation of the homoeopathic and other systems of deception : advice to students of medicine, young physicians, the public, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PAG It Gout 374 Acute Rheumatism 383 Chronic Rheumatism 385 Intermitting Fever, or Ague 389 Bilious, or inflammatory Fever 392 Yellow Fever 397 Nervous, or Typhus Fever 401 Inflammation of the External Parts of the Body 408 Inflammation of the Eye, or Ophthalmia 414 Diminution, or Total Loss of Sight. (Amaurosis) < 418 Cataract, or Confounded Vision 421 Deafness 428 Diseases or Accidents requiring Surgical Treatment 435 Drowned Persons Resuscitated 436 Freezing, or the Effects of Cold 445 Burns and Scalds 446 Suffocation produced by Inhaling Carbonic Acid Gas 448 Wounds ib. Ulcers 454 Poisons Taken Accidentally 459 Impositions 466 Homoeopathic System of Practice 467 Advice .' 482 P. S. The author of the work from which this extract has been taken, has inserted in the second pait of it, a description of the nerves which supply the various organs of the body with strength and vitality in a dis- eased condition; and has described in the most intelligible mariner, the effects and symptoms produced by the disease of the nerves in the differ- ent organs,—a circumstance which is acknowledged by intelligent physi- cians to be one of the greatest discoveries which has been made in the healing art during the last century, and they confess that the diseased condition of the nerves exhibited in the engraving, (which had not been suspected before it was investigated by the author,) has been the cause of the principal part of those distressing nervous affections, such for instance as insanity, falling fits, palpitations of the heait, palsy, &c.: and this fact