Bloodletting not necessary in the treatment of pneumonia / by D.W. Young, M.D.., Aurora, Ill.. ; a contribution to the report on practical medicine.

  • Young, Delos W., 1829-1874.
Date:
1870
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    //. than the effects of tb rig up.mi the local inflamma- ia benefioial. fo selecting our remedies in the treatment leumonia, we should always bear in mind the important that acute Pneumonia, marred by no anomoly, oompli- . with no other malady, and occurring under ordinarily ible circumstances, generally tends towards recovery, res- olution, and a favorable issue. Therefore, it .Iocs not require tive and heroic measures, as those diseases whose mortality is much greater. I say ;/<'>h-r<iIlt/ — but it docs not always thus favorably. In seme cases, it assumes from the com- unic, or an otherwise unfavorable character. rated and accidental symptoms manifest themselves in its various contingent causes operating during otinuance—causes proper to the individual affected, or to culiarity of the nature and combination of the exteral bich produce it. Age, sex, constitution, locality, epidemic influi tate of the season, atmosphere, or the epide p in which it Bupervenes, all tend to com- plicate and change the natural tendency of the disease. These influi ■ aid all be looked after carefully and taken into apply, Or decide upon our remedy. '• >*? to according to its own individuality. We must be governed by the particular symptoms and manifes- tations present, and not h\ the name. In no disease, perhaps, is this more important, and more clearly and imperatively de- manded, than in Pneumonia. I say, then, it is especially im- intly keep in mind, while prescribing in this disease, th< fact that in a vast majority of cases the disease will get well in its own natural course, without any kind of medical tri . where not complicated. This fact I think is as well understood and established as any other one fact concerning the disease. And, again, that it has two distinct ymptoms and indications of treatment. The stage, or period of congestion, high febrile action, and that of hepatization and disorganization. If we had no recorded evidence, no statistics, no accumulated experience, nothing except general principles to fall back upon,