Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders.

  • Sanders, James, 1777-1843.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that Beddoes found nourisliing diet and tonic remedies successful, but we should err grievously indeed, if we inferred, that every incipient phthisis should be similarly treated. Tumors of a scrofulous nature in the lungs are often very numerous and minute, not larger than small seeds, and hence have been called tubercles, and these are most frequently implied in the phrase tubercu- lar consumption, though tubercles of a very different kind are frequently found.* It must be obvious, that in such circumstances those means should be employed, which have been ascertained to be efficacious in the diminution of scrofulous tumors on any other part of the body. I think, that I have ascertained, that the muriat of lime has a more powerful effect in removing indolent scrofulous tumors than any other substance used as a remedy; but that, when they become open sores, it is almost useless. Tl;iis is a very manage- able substance ; the dose of it may be gra- * Vide Baillle's Morb. Anat. In the Lond. Med. Com- munications there are some very ingenious and interesting observations on the state of tubercles in the lungs, as ascer- tained from dissection by Dr William Stark.