Excerpt from Diseases Peculiar to Women: With a New and Successful Treatment for the Same, Without the Use of Caustics Found that many of my patients had been fearfully reduced by what is known as antiphlogistic, or more properly the Sangrado treatment described in Gil Blas.' Some physicians imagine erroneously that all these diseases are the result of in ammation, and as our forefathers cured in ammation by bloodletting, blistering, &c., so they follow in their revered foot steps. This I found to be especially the case ...
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Excerpt from Diseases Peculiar to Women: With a New and Successful Treatment for the Same, Without the Use of Caustics Found that many of my patients had been fearfully reduced by what is known as antiphlogistic, or more properly the Sangrado treatment described in Gil Blas.' Some physicians imagine erroneously that all these diseases are the result of in ammation, and as our forefathers cured in ammation by bloodletting, blistering, &c., so they follow in their revered foot steps. This I found to be especially the case with those treated at the Institution in Soho Square. At present I have two females who were inmates of that Institution, who, although they acknowledge the kind ness they received whilst there, yet deplore the loss of strength and the prostration they have suffered from ever since. This treatment, I found, would not cure patients in the nineteenth century, for if it did, they would not have come to me. I was therefore forced, if I would do my duty to my God and my fellow-men, to think for myself, as I did in treating cancer, and try if there were not other means, by which poor suf ferin g women might be relieved from those dreadful diseases. Having nothing to guide me but my know ledge of anatomy, my knowledge of the nature and character of the diseases affecting these parts, and aknowledge of the actions of the remedies I employ in it, I have been enabled, through God's blessing, successfully to treat many unhappy cases, and I think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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