On healthy and diseased structure and the true principles of treatment for the cure of disease : especially consumption and scrofula; founded on microscopical analysis.

  • Addison, William, 1802-1881.
Date:
1849
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Credit: On healthy and diseased structure and the true principles of treatment for the cure of disease : especially consumption and scrofula; founded on microscopical analysis. 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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    two English medical men gave her over. An Italian phy- sician who had seen many similar cases, was called in, and he predicted she would recover. She was a long time regaining her strength after this illness, and as she got better she grew very fat. This illness took place in July, in which month she completed her seventh year. At Naples in November she had a slight return of the same illness—but it was treated promptly with calomel and James's powder, and soon reduced. On the journey from Naples to Rome in December, she complained of pain in her hip and walked lame. We put on several leeches, which relieved the pain,—and as soon as we got to Rome, we procured medical advice. It was said to be an incipient hip-complaint; more leeches were applied, and she was confined to a sofa, on which she remained for three months. As the spring ap- proached, she began to walk about the house, but never took a regular w7alk out of doors, although she was allowed to run about in the garden of our villa near Florence, where she spent the early part of the summer. In July we went to the baths of Aix in Savoy, where she had douches upon the hip ; but I do not think they had much effect upon her. The follow- ing winter was spent near Paris, where she was under the care of a famous Orihopoedic doctor, who made her lie down a great deal, and do gymnastics for three or four hours a day. Her health improved amazingly under this treatment, and she left Paris in August, ap- parently in robust health. Dr. Guerin, having ordered