The Therapeutical Society of New York.

Date:
[1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Therapeutical Society of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE THERAPEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. IREPRINTED FROM THE NEW TORE MEDIOAL JOURNAL, APRIL, 1879.1 The sixth Stated Meeting was held February 14, 18T9, the President, Dr. Teaming, in the chair. The Committee on Restoratives, through its Chairman, Dr. Andrew H. Smith, presented the following report: REPORT ON DEFIBRINATED BLOOD FOR RECTAL ALIMENTATION. Me. President and Gentlemen : At a meeting of this Society held in April of last year, a very brief preliminary report was presented by the Committee on Restoratives on the subject of the use of defibrinated blood for rectal alimentation. This report, brief as it was, served the purpose for which it was intended, viz., to call the attention of the Society to the subject, and to enlist the cooperation of the members in giving the plan of treatment a fair trial. As the result, we have now upward of 60 cases upon which to base a report, which, if not final, will at least go far toward establishing the claim of this to rank with other received methods of treat¬ ment in cases of imperfect nutrition. It will be noted that only two or three of the cases which will be pre¬ sented are such as have heretofore been supposed to furnish the indications for rectal alimentation, the rectum being used in the remainder as only subsidiary to the stomach. The report covers 63 cases. Of these, 38 cases were of pulmonary phthisis in every stage, some of them presenting large cavities, and several being within a few days of the fatal termination. Eight of these could not tolerate the injections, either because of irritability of the rectum or on account of severe and persistent abdominal colic even when the dose