A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tation, than to stimulate in inflammation. It appears to be the object of Dr. Hall, whose talent for observation and power of discrimination are well known, to draw the attention of his brethren to the above-mentioned cases, by a plain record of facts. The motto which he has pertixed to his work, taken from Dr. Denman, is very appropriate. “We think the profession is under great obligations to Dr. Hallr for drawing their attention to those puerperal affections where irritation borders on, or even assumes the character of inflammation, and where strong depletory measures should be cautiously put in force. The only draw-back on the utility of the publication, is the danger of its embarras- ing the inexperienced practitioner, where actual inflammation obtains, combined with, or under the guise of irritation. At all events, we trust that the work will tend to effect the object designed by the Author, that of exciting the minutest attention to the discrimination of diseases.” The Medico-Chirurgical Review, pp. 195, 201. “ The lancet has been called, a minute instrument of mighty mischief;” and so we are persuaded it is in the hands of those “ bold and decided” practitioners, who never look at dis- ease but through the medium of inflammation, and imagine that every thing must be safe while enough of depletion is secured to their patients. “ It was with much interest we learnt that a formal de- nunciation of the inflammatory mania had been made by so able a physician as the author; and after an attentive perusal of the pamphlet ourselves, we can most conscientiously, and we do most earnestly recommend its contents to the consideration of our pro- fessional brethren. If there are still any among the number who think undoing and unloosing is all that medicine demands or will permit, to such we would be more urgent in the expression of our wishes that they would take Dr. Hall as a guide and preceptor.”1 The Medical Repository> No. 82, p. 299. W. Wheclhonse, Printer, Nottingham.