This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...beginning of phthisis, and I trust no one will ignore his earnest warning 'against the conventional and indiscriminate application of the remedy in all cases of tuberculosis.' But the complications I have suggested, indicate that it is not alone in cases of advanced or extensive disease that we may anticipate danger, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...beginning of phthisis, and I trust no one will ignore his earnest warning 'against the conventional and indiscriminate application of the remedy in all cases of tuberculosis.' But the complications I have suggested, indicate that it is not alone in cases of advanced or extensive disease that we may anticipate danger, so that both indications and contra-indications for the treatment must for some time to come be uncertain; and the lesson to be learned from this chapter is that the practitioner who has conducted his preliminary examination with the most thoroughness, and who afterwards proceeds most slowly, will also progress most safely. PROGNOSIS. Much of the foregoing refers to the momentous question of the amount of benefit to be expected as well as to its permanency, both being points fraught with higher practical importance than any other, always excepting the possibility of increasing the malady, or of directly causing or hastening a fatal issue through the agency of the remedy adopted for tuberculosis of the throat. So far as we know, there has not been any death directly resulting from the remedy in which treatment has been commenced with the minimum dose, and the indications for caution in repetition have been duly regarded. In one case only, in which such a charge could be at all justified, the patient was so far advanced in pulmonary disease that death could not have been long delayed. All other fatal cases which have been thoughtlessly attributed to the remedy could be accounted for by some such cause, or by cerebral or renal complications which, as we have seen, should contra-indicate adoption of the remedy at all. In simple justice to the remedy, it behoves us all not to attempt the treatment in unsuitable cases, and to exercise the greatest ca...
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