Another letter to a young physician : to which are appended some other medical papers / by James Jackson.

  • Jackson, James, 1777-1867.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Another letter to a young physician : to which are appended some other medical papers / by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    treated as a temporary inconvenience, making ultimate relief more certain. Hence the sick were led to submit to this treatment, and to re- gard the evacuation as useful. The other gentle- man, Dr. Danforth, looking at debility as the great source of disease, administered diffusible stimulants, with an idea that, if they do not give permanent strength, they bring on the normal actions, by which the strength may be renovated. He also looked ultimately to nutrition as furnish- ing the substantial means of restoration. With this view, he took care to relieve the alimentary canal from any undue burden, and from any offensive materials, which he supposed it might contain. When thus prepared, he believed that the patient might be brought back to a normal condition, sooner or later, by furnishing him with proper nutriment, and adding to it direct stimu- lants, by which all the organs, but the digestive organs especially, might be driven to the perform- ance of their proper functions. At the same time, he paid great attention to some other hygienic laws, thereby favoring the influence of good diet. In a large proportion of chronic diseases, the patient derived, at least, temporary comfort from this treatment; and when pursued with judg-