The Antipyretic Treatment Of Typhoid Fever

Author : Solomon Solis Cohen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260128911
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book On the Management of Patients with Typhoid Fever written by Solomon Solis Cohen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Management of Patients With Typhoid Fever: A Paper Read Before the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, May 17, 1898 The title of this brief communication ex presses the principal idea it is intended to enforce. In no other disease is it more im portant to bear in mind that the true function of the physician is not to attempt to interfere with the normal evolution of recovery, or the processes by which this is brought about, but rather to guide his patient safely through them. Within recent years two series of ex periences have impressed upon the profession in America (one from the negative, the other from the positive side) the needed lesson that temperature in itself is not to be feared, and as a symptom is not to be directly combated, save under extreme circumstances. The un fortunate results of treatment by the coal-tar products have practically demonstrated the danger of mere antipyretic dosing; while on the other hand the excellent results obtained by the use of cold water, after the method of Brand and in other ways, have shown that the febrile process expressed by high tem perature may readily and safely be controlled within certain limits, to the great increase of the patient's comfort, and with improvement of his chances of recovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.