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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... MAY WE CONQUER THEM? 129 producing above 50,000 deaths a year; convulsions above 22,000 deaths; pneumonia and bronchitis above 30,000 deaths a year; typhus fever and scarlet fever generally above 20,000 deaths each; and measles, hoopingcough, rheumatism, diarrhoea, hydrocephalus, etc., destroying human life among us in less, but still in fearful numbers. These several diseases stand at the present time as the highest on the roll of destructive agencies that prevail in British practice. For one I confess that I cannot but entertain an ardent belief that medical science may yet devise measures, prophylactic perhaps rather than curative, to stay the great destruction of human life prevailing amongst us from the first, for example, of these affections, phthisis. Perhaps a more advanced pathology and chemistry may yet ere long furnish us with more enlightened and practical views of pneumonia and other inflammatory disorders than we yet possess, and arm us with more sure and potent medicinal weapons and resources against them. We have, from the experience of the last few years, every reason to hope that the whole 130 PREVENTION OF SCARLATINA, ETC. class of zymotic diseases will be greatly subdued betimes in intensity and violence, when the investigation of the physical causes predisposing to them, or even actually exciting them, is more fully expiscated. Besides if by vaccination during infancy medicine has devised means to arrest the ravages of small-pox, may it not yet devise some means also, by inoculation or otherwise, to arrest the ravages of scarlet fever and measles, of hooping-cough, of typhus fever, and perhaps of the whole class of non-recurrent diseases? And even if we fail to arrest them, we may possibly find out for the varying animal poisons produ...
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