Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...may thus leave its permanent impress on the constitution, or on special organs, as was formerly noticed with regard to the Walcheren fever, and is now noticeable in cases of Asiatic cholera. 94. The surgical physician contemplating extensive injuries in a patient just brought to the hospital, takes his prognosis and regulates his remedies by reference to the violence of the shock, the importance of the parts injured, the age and probable degree of vigour and strength of the sufferer. If these circumstances be unfavourable he knows death is certain, and he palliates suffering as far as is practicable. But if there be reasonable chance of success, he grounds it on a prudent direction of nature's efforts, on nursing and economizing her resources, in saving further wear and tear of the powers, on equalizing circulation, on securing occasional sleep as an interrepose to increase endurance; on regulating the secretions, and on placing the sufferer under the most favourable condition for rendering reaction safely subservient to reparation, since after all impair, there must be repair. He never seeks to combat monsters of the imagination deeply lurking in some unknown corner of the circulation or nervous system; neither is he surprised if his patient's fluids become tainted under the fever of reaction, for he knows that some extensive mental and mechanical forces are capable of causing all this, other causes concurring. 95. Epidemical strokes, like extensive mechanical injuries, if curable at all, absolutely require prompt assistance in proportion to the force of the blow or extent of injury. Whether a man has Asiatic cholera or several smash-fractures of limbs, he will suffer prostration and feebleness of circulation, especially on the outer...
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