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

  • Hastings, John, 1805-1875.
Date:
1854
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    18/190 (page 4)
    that with our present knowledge we are at a- loss to comprehend the result. Not so the chemist. He* finds no difficulty in propound- ing a theory, which apparently explains the whole matter. It is worthy of consideration how much might have been accomplished, had the subject of treatment been investigated with the same amount of labour and ability as has been bestowed upon the study of patho- logy. It is true therapeutics have not been entirely neglected. During the period to which I have alluded, two great discoveries connected with treatment have been made— vaccination and a3therisation—but for these we are certainly not indebted to pathology. Had the treatment of disease been as care- fully and assiduously studied as its pathological condition, it would scarcely have remained until this day a disputed question as to which is the best plan of treating cholera. The efficacy of the various methods of treatment, which have been from time to time employed in this disease, would have been thoroughly investigated, so that even if the inquiry had not resulted in the discovery of some specific agent, in which we might place implicit confidence, the