The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt.

  • Burggraeve, Ad. (Adolphe), 1806-1902.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    On the following days, the arseniate of iron was continued, the dose being four milligrammes per day. That which had to h the return of the rigours, for the great vari- ableness of both the pulse and temperature has been pointed : the former tending to rise and the latter to fall. 1 usual in anaemia. The chief point, is to maintain a certain mean of vitality, in order to prevent internal concentrations or accessions. Our practice at the Civil Hospital of Ghent. rea to us, every day. that even in the gravest accidents. inflammatory fever can be jugulated or averted. Expectant medicine has made too many victims that it should be persif in. There is a responsibility in medicine which cannot be led. It is too easy to place everything to the account of the disease ; too eas 1 take advantage of its inacti as if by a wise discretion. Sagacity—I will not say science as understood by the organic school—consists in that there be as little as possibl natomy. The collectors of fine cases are the scourge of humanity ; they are, Latour very judiciously - natural- heir lives in classing and describing the dis:., of man. I might now approach the study of inflammations in pa lar, keeping exclusively to their dynamic period, that which can be jugulated. In a future chapter, I shall treat of chronic diseases arising from the carelessness of the patiei DOSIMETRIC TREATMENT OE PARTICULAR INELAMMATIOXS. Meningitis. — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain haracterised by pungent, lancinating headache—if it is the serous membrane which is especially attacked :—dull pain, if it is the pia mater: and pulsating pain (like the blows of a battering-ram), if it is the dura mater.