Fat and blood : and how to make them / By S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Fat and blood : and how to make them / By S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    ment; continued regularly ever since during three years. Mrs. C, set. 42, eight years without menstruation ; return at fourteenth day of treatment; now regular during five months. Miss C, a3t. 22, no menstruation for eight months; return at close of sixtieth day of treatment; regular now for four months. Miss A., set. 26, irregular; missing for two or three months, and then menstruating irregularly for two or three months. No flow for two months. Menstruated at nineteenth day of treatment, and regular during thirteen months ever since. I had at one time intended to give, in the first edition of this work, a full list of all my cases, with the results, but what were easy to do in definite maladies like typhoid fever becomes hard in cases such as I here relate. In the fever the statistics are simple—patients die or get well; but in cases of nervous exhaustion, so called, it is impossible to state accurately the number of partial recoveries, or, at least, to define usefully the degrees of gain. For these reasons I have not attempted to furnish full statistics of the large number of cases I have treated. The relapses into bad health after complete cure