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. 1897 Excerpt: ... that I know of any in which the change is so difficult to make, whether the sufferer be rich or poor. In the one case the relatives, from the kindest of motives, take every care that the doomed one shall want nothing that money can supply, and in the other, kind friends and neighbours have a similar care for the ...
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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. 1897 Excerpt: ... that I know of any in which the change is so difficult to make, whether the sufferer be rich or poor. In the one case the relatives, from the kindest of motives, take every care that the doomed one shall want nothing that money can supply, and in the other, kind friends and neighbours have a similar care for the poorer sufferer; while most surgeons, thinking of the exhausting nature of the malady, recommend all sorts of what are usually considered the richest and most setting-up meats and drinks; and trust to opiates and other drugs to relieve the pain and suffering. My own experience has led me to adopt a very different treatment to that which is certainly still followed as a rule, both as to feeding and giving soothing medicines, and I have found that if a proper diet is given, there is little call for relief by opiates, and sometimes none at all. Some twenty years ago I read, I think in the same medical journal, a short notice of a woman who had for some years suffered from cancer in the breast. At last her condition got so low and her digestion so bad that she could only take for sustenance a very small quantity of milk. On this alone she lived for two years, and at the end of that period the cancerous growth had quite disappeared. Unfortunately in neither case have I kept a note of the date of the journal. I give a few cases, which I have met with in my own practice, where I have found the good effects of light living, both in easing the patient and in prolonging life. I first saw Mrs. M at Leith in 1852, owing to the death of her doctor, a kind old friend whom she deeply lamented. I had known him well, and we were good friends, though differing very much in the mode of treating our patients. Mrs. M was then about 40, of a very nervous, irritable temp...
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