The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    for which we should so rejoice to learn that we possessed certain and reliable remedies, nor any class of diseases, when we contemplate their post mortem results, for which we so despair of finding any. But we should not be discouraged by the contemplation of the final results of pathological processes as we see them in the dead-house. It is certainly not the province of pathological investigation to quell our ardour and diminish our efforts in endeavouring to check the ravages of disease. That it has some such effect on certain minds is beyond question. Let us guard our own against any such fatal bias. When we look upon a lung infiltrated from apex to base with tuberculous and inflammatory deposits in every stage of depo- sition and disintegration, riddled with cavities ; its air-spaces—such as remain to it—choked with purulent secretion and debris of tissue, we may well confess our helplessness before such a state of disease and decay. But this is only the final expression of what was at one time probably simply a constitutional tendency; a proneness to a certain form of disease, analogous in some respects to that