Diphtheria, croup, etc., or, The membranous diseases : their nature, history, causes, and treatment, with a review of the prevailing theories and practice of the medical profession : also, a delineation of the new choral [i.e. chloral] hydrate method of treating the same, its superior success, and its title to be considered a specific / by C.B. Galentin.

  • Galentin, C. B. (Christopher B.)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Diphtheria, croup, etc., or, The membranous diseases : their nature, history, causes, and treatment, with a review of the prevailing theories and practice of the medical profession : also, a delineation of the new choral [i.e. chloral] hydrate method of treating the same, its superior success, and its title to be considered a specific / by C.B. Galentin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    latter are the obstructionists of progress, ever ready to sneer at, and strive to detract from the influence of any discovery in medicine so unfortunate as not to have been developed beneath their own hats. However it may be received by the profession, it is confidently believed that it will be sustained by experience, and will stand, as have other truths, upon its own merits. Other practitioners of ripe age and large experience, both in this city and elsewhere, at the suggestion of the writer, have tested the efficacy of chloral in a very large number of cases of diphtheria, and unhesitatingly affirm its efficacy, as superior to any other known treatment. Among these I mention with pleasure my esteemed and scholarly friend, Dr. A. G. Hart, and my daughter and co- laborer in this work, to whom its merits, if any be ac- corded it, are largely clue. Finally, to those whose lives and labors are honestly devoted to the true interests of the noble profession of medicine, and the welfare of human- ity, I wish to say, Gentlemen, the writer submits whatever is new and use- ful in this little volume to you, for your careful consideration and use ; in the pleasing hope of rendering both to you, and through you, to the world, a tittle of the good service we owe each other and humanity, with a humilitating sense of its many defects, C. B. Gr.