Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault].

  • Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive, 1759-1836.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Islandicus, we have often employed it without any additional aid. We should assuredly have more decisive ideas of the virtues of medicines, if, banishing those multifarious phar¬ maceutical preparations of the Ara¬ bians, we always followed this me¬ thod, not more simple than rational. We expect to meet with warm opposers, with sceptical writers, who in spite of the best established facts will maintain, that it is impossible to cure a confirmed consumption; but the candor of enlightened Physicians, and the new facts which will daily arise, will furnish an irrefragable an¬ swer to these men, who have infi¬ nitely impeded the advancement of the science of medicine—Yes, we must assert, that one of the causes which has most contributed to im-