A practical treatise on pulmonary tuberculosis : embracing its history, pathology, and treatment / by Horace Green.

  • Green, Horace, 1802-1866.
Date:
1864
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    these are among the most prominent of the measures recommended by the Father of Medicine for the treat- ment of Consumption. It does not appear that Hippocrates knew aught of the remedy so universally employed at the present day in the treatment of Consumption, for we find no mention made of cod-liver oil in any of his writings; but the oil or fat of different animals, and particularly that of the wild boar, is advised by him in several portions of his works to be taken freely by consumptive patients. DIOSCOEIDES. Few among the immediate successors of Hippocrates ventured to entertain any opinions, or to recommend any measures for the treatment of disease, different from those entertained and advised by the Father of Medicine. The employment of fumigations in the treatment of Con- sumption, and the internal administration of sulphur, were recommended by Dioscorides, the physician of Cleopatra. ARET^EUS. Aretaeus, of the exact period of whose writings we are not positive, but who practised in the reign of Ves- pasian, employed the term of phthae or phthisis to desig- nate a disease characterized by a chronic cough, haemo- ptysis, a purulent expectoration, and attended with ulcera- tion of the lungs. In remarking upon affections of the chest, Areteeus makes the observation that in those where the disease proves fatal, the patient seldom des- pairs of recovery to the last. \ His work on General Disease is written with much elegance, and his description of the rational si«ns of Consumption is uncommonly accurate. A more graphic