Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, William.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^Si and internal remedies, especially of mercury and digitalis, was most beneficial and essentially neces- sary. The ratio medendi in such cases will also, I trust, be found consistent with the principles developed through this work, both with regard to the altered appearance of the blood depending on the condition of the functions of sanguification, and the effect of remedies for that condition, and consequently for the morbid state of the blood itself. Having lately in a Report * of the Fever Hos- pital and House of Recovery in Cork-street, for the years 18^0 and 1821, recapitulated the leading ar- guments which twenty years experience in that establishment have supplied me against the em- ployment of venesection as a general remedy for typhus fever, I shall content myself, in this place, with adding farther evidence on this subject, af- forded by the combinations of typhus, with the late prevailing epidemic. Premising that it was my practice to bleed through every stage of the influenza, in propor- tion to the degree in which the inflammatory symp- toms of any vital organ prevailed, I can possitively affirm, in the first place, that venesection was not in general so effectual in relieving such in- flammatory complaints as I have seen it at other periods j and secondly, that in whatever degree