Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption).

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption). 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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    of the disorder. And, again : Do what we may, in nine cases out of ten our best- directed efforts will be disappointed.1 I am far from denying that in a certain pro- portion of them the disease will terminate in death, do what we will; but I would have you enter upon their treatment with a hope that your efforts may be crowned with success, especially where the inflammation is accompanied by fluid effusion. The case which I have just narrated is by no means a solitary one in my experience. I am at present seeing a lad, twelve years of age, who is just convalescent from a most violent attack of tubercular peritonitis, of which I may perhaps give you full details on some other occasion. Suffice it to say, in the meantime, that he is a member of one of the 1 The Principles and Practice of Physic, by Sir Thomas Watson, Bart, M.D. Fifth edition. Vol. II., p. 438. London : Longmans, Green, and Co. 1871.