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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    INTRODUCTION. The treatment of different diseases by similar remedies, as advocated in the following pages, to thoughtful practitioners will appear neither strange nor unreasonable. Diseases differing widely in their essential characters, are not infre- quently related by symptoms or phenomena that are common to several. The entire system of the so-called Rational treatment of disease, indeed, consists in the treatment of the symptoms as they arise, if we except only the few instances in which the treatment is specific. Pain in the chest for example, may be occasioned by a variety of diseases, as pneumonia, pleurisy, and neuralgia, but regardless of its cause, requires anodynes for its cure. Hemorrhage, whether from the lungs, the stomach, the uterus, or the bowels, depending on different organic or general diseases, calls alike for gallic acid, ergot, and the like. An exhausting diarrhoea occurs in quite oppo- site states and may be very properly controlled by opium, etc., regardless of the particular disease ; sleeplessness, occasioned by very diverse causes, calls alike for chloral, morphia, etc.; debility, regardless of its cause, is treated properly with nutrients and restoratives ; and an exalted temperature of the body, whether inflammatory or typhoid, with antip}Tretics. Symptoms, and not the names of diseases, are treated by intelligent practitioners, with the exception of those treated by specifics as before stated. In the diseases which we call Membranous, and which only are the subjects of this volume, we observe a common diag- nostic symptom or manifestation. It is not pain, nor diar-