An essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption, on principles natural, rational, and successful / by George Bodington.

  • Bodington George, 1799-1882.
Date:
1840
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    doses, and generally with the effect of nearly destroying the patient: It materially assists the disease in destroying the powers of nutrition, the muscular power, and the functions of the skin, at the same time increasing the nervous excitement. Patients seldom survive long the use of this medicine, when administered freely, if the disease is much advanced, unless an anti- dote to the poison be timely given. I have never seen anything but mischief arise from the use of it; it is entirely inconsistent with the method and the principles upon which I have successfully treated the disease. It is, however, at the present time, a fashionable medicine, and I may add a most destructive one. I am quite sure that the employment of this (remedy ?) hastens the fatal event. Digitalis is another drug that has been vaunted as a remedy for consumption: It has the power of controlling the action of the heart, and dimi- nishing the number of its beats ; therefore, it has been argued, it must or ought to be serviceable B 2