Hydropathy as applied to acute disease : illustrated by cases / by T. R. Armitage.

  • Armitage, Thomas Rhodes, 1824-1890.
Date:
MDCCCLII [1852]
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Credit: Hydropathy as applied to acute disease : illustrated by cases / by T. R. Armitage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    disease, and cured. The dispassionate inquirer demands much more than this; for with the meagre information afforded, it is quite impos- sible for him to form even a conjecture whether the patient owed his recovery to hydropathic treatment or not Such reports no well-educated physician will ever consider of the least value. Cases ought to be drawn up at the bed-side, and a journal kept, detailing the progress from day to day, with such minuteness that medical men may be enabled to form some opinion as to the effect the remedies used have had in mitigat- ing the symptoms, and in causing a fatal or favourable termination. I dare hardly flatter myself that the report, which I am now about to make, of the cases treated by me at the Charite, will give satisfac- tion, for I am aware how much more easy it is to find fault with others, than to furnish a model worthy of imitation. I shall, probably, be thought to have fallen into an error the opposite of that which I have condemned in others, and to be too tediously minute; but I was desirous to put the whole of each case as much before my readers as possible, so that they might be able to judge for themselves.