Medical and physiological problems : being chiefly researches for correct principles of treatment in disputed points of medical practice. Pt. first ... / by William Griffin and by Daniel Griffin.

  • Griffin, William, 1794-1848.
Date:
1839
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    PROBLEMS. PROBLEM I. BY WILLIAM QiUFFIK, M.D. WHAT PRINCIPLES SHOULD BE KEPT IN VIEW BY THE PHYSICIAN IN THE TREATMENT OF ENTERITIS. After tlie great accessions whicli have been made to our know- ledge of the pathology of the alimentary canal, within the last few years, it may appear extraordinary that I should propose the foregoing as a question difficult of solution. In some points in the treatment of intestinal inflammation, there is, I am aware, a very general agreement among medical men, but in others, and by far the most important, I am far from imagining the practice is at all settled or uniform ; there is, indeed, among persons of considerable reputation not only a difference, but a direct opposi- tion of opinion, which sometimes occasions a difficulty in the ma- nagement of such cases, only conceivable in its full extent by those who have had to stand at the bed side, and choose between the two, with the conviction that life or death hung upon the de- cision. But even if the practice was more uniform, until some general principles of treatment are universally admitted, there will always be ground for perplexity in the timing of remedies, in determining the changes which are to give us our indications, and in fixing the moment when it will be safe to commence or abandon a particular plan of management. Perhaps much of tho discrepancy of opinion that exists might be explained by the suc- cess or ill success of remedies under the very varying conditions of the disease in which they have been administered. At all events it would be rendering science some service, if even an