Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases.

  • Rushton, Frederick V.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    written upon the therapeutic properties of this great remedy, and placed before the profession, not only in Europe, but in this country. Probably no one medicinal agent has ever before been so fully investigated, and occupied the attention of so many distin- guished men, as Cod Liver Oil. With few- exceptions the standard authorities in Eu- rope have been agreed upon its great utili- ty, not only as a useful remedy, but one which takes a place hitherto unoccupied— a curative agent in that most formidable of all maladies, Consumption, and its pre- cursor, Scrofula. When Cod Liver Oil was first intro- duced to the profession in this country by the late William L. Hushton, it was found exceedingly difficult to obtain a pure arti- cle. The demand in Europe was so great that good Oil was almost entirely ex- hausted in that market, and therefore fo- reign customers were often imposed upon