Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1898
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    tonics give, merely watch the slow decline of our patients. I believe that sometimes, and especially in the very earliest stages of consumption, my treatment will save a small percentage of such people; but as yet I only venture to make the suggestion, and wish distinctly to state that my experience in this form of its usefulness is limited. One of the cases treated got well and remained well. There was every evidence of pulmonary trouble. A second improved enormously in all re- spects, but relapsed hopelessly, owing to large and repeated bleeding from piles and rectal fissure. The third, a male, set. 24, was treated by rest and massage without electricity, and improved so as to resume his work. He still has slight cough, and has to be careful, and there are, as yet, distinct evidences of inactive disease at the summit of the left lung. I could relate cases of gain in flesh without manifest relief. As I have said, these are rare; but it is less uncommon to see great relief with- out improvement in weight at all, or until the patient is up and afoot for some weeks; and I