On the effects of the thermal waters of Ems / by Louis Spengler.

  • Spengler, Ludwig, 1818-1866.
Date:
1854
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Credit: On the effects of the thermal waters of Ems / by Louis Spengler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    long duration of the catarrh occasions fresh de- posits of pathological products which, according to the laws of analogous formation, soon assume the character of the first exsudation. For this reason, too much care cannot be bestowed on every hyperlipemia, on every catarrh that shows a disposition to prove obstinate. If we succeed in curing this catarrh, we put a stop to the pro- gress of the previous pathological process, as for instance, Tubercles. Thus, in Ems it is not the tubercles that we cure, — but the chronic catarrh, the exciting cause, the dangerous atten- dant and successor of tuberculosis. Ems can no more be regarded as a certain remedy in tuber- culosis, than the formerly so highly lauded spe- cifics can be looked upon as such; in fact, there exists no remedy, of which we can say with any degree of certainty, that it removes or re- solves tuberculous deposit, that it eradicates dys- crasy, or even acts on the diminution or cica- trization of the caverns. From the foregoing, it