Practical remarks. Part I. On acute and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers of the eye &c. &c. Part II. On remittent fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O'Halloran.

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1824
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Credit: Practical remarks. Part I. On acute and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers of the eye &c. &c. Part II. On remittent fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O'Halloran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can never happen under the present plan; for it is recommended that the confinement should not exceed one week ; and it never happens that the patient, who probably relapses five or six times in the course of a year, is reduced to that state of debility which necessarily succeeds confinement and venesection, as practised by the advocates of depletion. The mode of cure which I have pursued, as it has been briefly sketched in the preceding pages, is safe, and it is farther important as it abridges medical labour ; for it is a fact, that the practitioner, if disencumbered from a detail of cases, can with facility prescribe for three hundred or more persons daily; while, as, following the common custom, he could not do justice to more than fifty. Whenever deep seated and acute pain de- noted internal disease, which was not often the case, recourse was had to abstraction of blood by means of leeches; and if the parts were care- fully fomented after their application, they ge- nerally, though not always, produced relief. The relief was, in many instances, only tempo- rary; the pain recurred to a certain extent when the fomentations were discontinued. Notwith- standing the want of success which frequently attended abstraction of blood, and its actual injury in some cases, still I considered it my duty, more particularly when I commenced the c 2