Oliver Wendell Holmes and the contagiousness of puerperal fever : an address delivered at Marlborough, Wiltshire, to the Trowbridge division of the Bath and Bristol branch of the British Medical Association, October 28, 1905 / by Charles J. Cullingworth.

  • Cullingworth, Charles J. (Charles James), 1841-1908.
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1906
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Credit: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the contagiousness of puerperal fever : an address delivered at Marlborough, Wiltshire, to the Trowbridge division of the Bath and Bristol branch of the British Medical Association, October 28, 1905 / by Charles J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WILLIAMS, Charles, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., L.S.A., formerly Resident Assistant Medical Officer, Heigham Hall Asylum ; and Junior Medical Officer, Shaftesbury House Asylum ; Author of A New Method of Treating the Insane, etc. A Short Essay on Insanity, showing the Importance of the Early Detection of the Disease, and pointing out How the Disorder can, at the outset, be Recognised. Demy 8vo, sewed. Price Is. net; by post, Is. Id. This elementary essay may be welcomed as one more effort to bring into prominence the importance of recognising the earliest sym- ptoms of insanity. The author has treated the subject from a popular point of view, and in a simple, clear manner which can be readily understood by the unlearned in medical matters.—The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal. We are sure the general practitioner will do well to read this little pamphlet.—The Hospital. A Plea for the More Energetic Treatment of the Insane. Demy 8vo, sewed. Price Is. 6d. net; by post, Is. 8d. This is a valuable and instructive little book, and well repays perusal. It teems with notes of interesting cases quoted in support of the author's arguments. The book is not without considerable interest for the practitioner. Treatment by thyroid extract, elec- tricity, warm bath, Turkish bath, counter-irritation, suggestion, subterfuge, and finally by surgery, are all dealt with in a very instructive manner.—The Midland Medical Journal. We do not pretend to pronounce any authoritative opinion on this pamphlet, but we do not hesitate to say that it is very interesting. Mr. Williams suggests the use of thyroid, electricity, the pro- longed warm bath (tlie patient divides his time between bath and bed), counter-irritation, the inducing some disease which acts bene- ficially on the brain, suggestion (which he says can be done without hypnotism), subterfuge (a patient fancies that he has no stomach, and you tell him that an operation has been performed by which the want has been supplied), and actual surgery (made more hope- ful by our increased power to localise mental operations). These and other matters may be seen set out at length and illustrated with cases in Mr. Williams's pamphlet. He starts with the fact that the recovery rate is lamentably small, while, Ave may add, the rate of increase of lunacy is lamentably large. This is justifica- tion enough for dealing with the subject. As to the value of the remedies we have nothing to say, except that the cases in which they are to be tried are for the most part desperate.—The Spectator,