Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott.

  • Boott, Francis, 1792-1863.
Date:
1833-1834
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    From the same. My Dear Boott, London, May 22nd, 182-4. I do believe that the diet of your child is too uniform. I would advise you to change it often, still making it simple. There are two extremes,— too uniform and simple a diet, and too varied and mixed : adopt the middle one, and depend upon it the liver will act; giving up all mercurials, and using a little friction daily over the abdomen with the hand. The College of Surgeons have had another meet- ing, or rather its Court of Inquisitors, at which it was finally agreed, that no certificates would in fu- ture be received by that body, except they were from some person or persons attached to the re- cognised hospitals and schools. It is generally be- lieved that the measures originated in a determina- tion to crush the school to which I am now at- tached, because it was the most prosperous. After a strong debate, however, it was sanctioned, and therefore Grainger's certificates stand good as be- fore. Public opinion had deterred them from an act of wickedness to which they were, I believe, prone enough. My friend G thinks differently from you about T 's lectures. He says they are so full of the opinion-: and practices of other persons, as to leave vague impressions on the mind. He excepts those on syphilis, which he thinks very valuable. How difficult it is to please !—My plan is the op- posite, and some say my lectures are not learned enough : but I shall adhere to my own observation E 2