Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault].

  • Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive, 1759-1836
Date:
1806
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Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now many difeafes do we now behold fuccefs- fully treated, which were formerly regarded as the opprobrium of medicine? « Learn,” {aid Cappivacius to the Phyficians of his time, ** other means of treating Phthifis, and you ‘¢ will no longer deem it incurable.” It muft however be eranted, that diforders of the breaft can only proceed towards a cure by flow and infenfible {fteps; in order to obtain advantage from the beft plan, fteady perfever- ance is effentially neceflary. The fick in ge- neral are readily capable of commencing a plan, but few can be found who have refolution fuf- ficient to purfue it with conftancy. We may even generally remark, that great enterprizes are by no means uncommon, but there is no- thing more rare among men than this {teady perfeverance. It is a feries of facts, it is the experience of ten years which we fubmit to the public ; during which, the adminiftration of this remedy has been attended with the fame fuccefs, in Germany, France, and England. We have attentively obferved the different methods of treatment recommended in thefe different countries, and compared them with each