The curability of consumption : being the reprint of a series of papers, presenting the most prominent and important practical points in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the disease / by Francis H. Ramadge.

  • Ramadge, Francis Hopkins, 1793-1867.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The curability of consumption : being the reprint of a series of papers, presenting the most prominent and important practical points in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the disease / by Francis H. Ramadge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with diminished anxiety of mind, tended probably, in no small degree, to that increase of weight which many of the patients are stated to have acquired when making use of cod-liver oil. In the Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, with which I was so many years connected, and the temperature of which was regulated so as to imitate the heat of summer, I often noticed that as the expectoration diminished from the arti- ficial warmth of the wards, several of the patients increased in flesh to no inconsiderable degree. F. H. R. 40 Clarges Street, , * 20th January 1854.