The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal (Volume 13) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... at present; and, finally, the practical operation of medicines would no longer disappoint the physician and discourage the patient, as they too often do at the present day. It is to be hoped that both the National Association and the local societies will continue to agitate the question, until they succeed in bringing it properly under the notice of the State legislature. J. C. Dalton. [Am. Jour, of Med. Sciences. On Mercury in Typhoid Fever. By Dr. Ware. (A Paper read before the Abbeville District Medical Society.) There is probably no question more interesting to the medical practitioner of our district, or more practically important, than that which relates to the propriety of using mercury in the treatment of typhoid fever. We are every year becoming more painfully familiar with the ravages of this mysterious, this obstinate form of disease, and yet the opinions entertained as to its pathology are almost as unsettled as ever, and the treatment of it as empirical as when it first visited our latitude. True, we have witnessed, time and again, all the symptoms that manifest themselves during the progress of the disease, in all the various forms that it assumes, and we can unhesitatingly trace these symptoms to the different tissues, of the disordered states of which they are significant. We are fully acquainted, too, with all the morbid appearances, all the appreciable lesions revealed by post-mortem dissections, and still we are forced to admit, that our positive knowledge stops short at secondary links in the chain of causes; that we are yet ignorant of the real nature of the primary impression or lesion, from which results the pathological conditions manifested by the phenomena developed during the progress of the disease, and which causes these pathological...