A brief and intelligible view of the nature, origin, and cure of tubercular or scrofulous disease, illustrated by numerous cases : including, also, a manual for the application of electro-magnetism in this disorder / by John Fondey.

  • Fondey, John.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A brief and intelligible view of the nature, origin, and cure of tubercular or scrofulous disease, illustrated by numerous cases : including, also, a manual for the application of electro-magnetism in this disorder / by John Fondey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    order, and their reputation has fallen as rapidly as it rose, and they bid fair, so far as any influence of theirs over tne cure of Tubercular disease of the lungs is concerned, to sinlc speedily into an obscurity so complete as hardly to adunt ol any future recovery; an obscurity as deep, as their elevation. was grand and imposing. If, however, humanity were to be left to choose between such a course of medication as has just been pointed out for the removal of the disorder which is under consideration, and those processes of treatment which were formerly adopted for the cure of Tubercular disease, of which pulmonary con- sumption, or that form of it at least which is tubercular in its character, was regarded as the grand embodiment, no lover of his race, no one needing relief from its dire and destruc- tive influences, could for a moment hesitate as to the choice to be made between the two, but would regard even Cod-liver Oil and Phosphate of Lime as infinitely preferable to those harsh and debilitating processes of treatment which were for- merly made use of; which speedily exhausted the constitution of the poor sufferer, and rapidly hurried the victim of a ruin- ous system of medication to the mansions of the grave. No wonder if, under the influence of such reducing methods of treatment as were formerly employed, the progress of the unhappy victim of an injudicious and injurious system of medication should have been downward: that the constitu- tion, weakened already by the disease, should have become still weaker under the treatment adopted; and life, that blessed boon, speedily have ceased to animate the structure, which disease and destructive remedial agencies had com- bined to render unfit for the further manifestations of ac- tivity and intelligence. No wonder that the physician who blindly followed in the paths marked out by those who pre- ceded him, should, in view of the fatal consequences of pulmo- nary disorder, following, with such certain and unvarying tread upon the harsh and ruinous remedial treatment made use of, have come to the conclusion that Tubercular Consump- tion was incurable: so long as resort was still had to the old and debilitating methods of treatment, so long were all his efforts to stay the disease fruitless: his exertions indeed only had the effect^ to aggravate the disease, and hurry on the final and fatal issue. Sad, sad, that men holding so high and responsible stations