On the special treatment of pulmonary consummption and hooping cough / by John Hastings.

  • Hastings, John, 1805-1875.
Date:
1854
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Credit: On the special treatment of pulmonary consummption and hooping cough / by John Hastings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TREATMENT PULMONARY CONSUMPTION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Although pathological science has made great progress since the commencement of the present century, the treatment of disease has not kept pace with it. The great feature of the medical schools during that period has been the study of pathology, and it still con- tinues to engross the mind of the profession. Illustrated and aided by the microscope and chemistry, it has shed considerable light upon the nature of some diseases, which was formerly, too often, a subject of conjecture; and has also led to a more accurate diagnosis. Nevertheless there is another stage in the in- quiry, which the microscope and the chemist have failed to elucidate, namely, the first step from health to disease.