On the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of acute hydrocephalus, or water-brain-fever / [Thomas Smith].

  • Smith, Thomas, 1813-1887.
Date:
1845
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Credit: On the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of acute hydrocephalus, or water-brain-fever / [Thomas Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In such a position, after duly weighing all authorities, and having had many opportunities of comparing my sentiments with those of my con¬ temporaries, if I have determined to try to lay down a beacon or two, by means of which even a few lives may be saved, and much misery pre¬ vented, it ought rather to excite surprise that I have not long ago been anticipated in the per¬ formance of what may justly be called a duty of humanity, long neglected. And although others after me may perform the same duty more ably, and perhaps more successfully, I may at least claim to myself the credit of first pointing the way. Of this I am quite certain, when young parents have lost their first or second-born by Hydrocephalus, under self-management, and the of this insidious invader of the human species, I avail myself of the recently recorded opinions of that candid, but highly gifted physician, M. Louis. After enumerating the various remedies which have from time to time been lauded as capable of effectually arresting the pro¬ gress of phthisis and perfecting its cure, and having himself repeatedly submitted the same to the most rigid and impartial trial, he thus sums up his observations: “ I have endeavoured to appreciate at their value the various means which have of late risen into notice, as possessed of the greatest power of effectually influencing the course of phthisis, or even of effecting its cure ; and as we have seen, the best founded hopes in appearance, have one after another vanished before scrutiny.” —Louis on Phthisis. Second Edition : Translated by Dr. Walshe.