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Show 05.4 APPENDIX. APPENDIX. useful, never destructive. The success ascribed to his mea« sures, his calmness and the good order he. introduced, .seem much superior to cold allusion as in bad cases of continued first to have dissipated a little of the nearly universal dismay among the. professional and unprofessional. "lo the name of delirious impulse, but from a resolution delib erately formed. Deveze, Icannot refrain from joining that of his assoc1ate, Mr. Stephen Gerard, an opulent American merchant, the since equal of the good bishop of Marseilles, and of our Howard, whom no torm of danger could appal and no torm of misery disgust. Instead of flying to the security of his country seat he became the self-devoted slave of humanity. Sear-cely would he allow himself time to take necessary support. He flew from one house of indigence and distress to another, dis- tributing 1110110)" and advice. In the hospital, he not only at- tended to the management, but traversed the wards, went from bed to bed, adrninismring services and consolation; and it is said by an eye-witness, that no parent could have shewn ,1 l n- 4JJUW 'IMM' ,5, more tenderness to his own children. it cannot be indifl‘erent to any reader to hear that Gerard moved unhurt amid the pea stilence. P. I have asserted, without adding any authority, that after dropsy signs of inflammation or redness from dilated vessels would be found in the brain. In that very common sort of tiropsy, which requires bleeding, 3 little knowledge of pathology will persuade any one that the fact cannot well be otherwise, and as some have named it lryclrops plet/zoricus, soDr. l'loucquet may, if he pleases, reconcile his system to the fact by callingr it Iii/drops z‘yp/zocles. Stoll, to give one exam« pic. in acquittal of my faith, has cases of fatal dropy, where the \cssels of the brain were found turgid. (I. c. III. 303 at 5.) In this disorder, when it exhibits the pulsar (Mani, dun, vi= l-mntisslmz', appearances of inflammation are discovered in seats as various as in the disorders so often mentioned. PLUS,Dr.Curriehastaught us that the coldaflusion,employed in the hot stage ofintermittcnts cuts the paroxysni short. It returns llfil.'.':\'(‘.l‘, at the usual time. l‘v'Iost of us may have ascci tainctl the truth of this lesson. But in bad cases ofague, Il":lfi'tirzictcd application of cold will probably turn out as much fever. It has been tried, not in consequence of a sudden Rey, game-keeper autumn to from M. de the. Ramaticelle, had attacks of a quartan suffered ague. They yielded neither to febrifngc medicines nor to spring. In summer, to went during the hot stage into cold water and continued in it, till he felt no more of the feverish heat. The 'aguc never afterwards appcaicd._ .Di-. Olivier, who saw the patient. and in 1771 related his case, argue s away as fluently asa person who might have published only last month, upon the efi'ects ofthe sudden shock (elemailement szzliit) in driving back the. contents of the capillaries into the large vesse ls and so on. As patients may be alarmed by the method of Rey, he proposes that medical men should first practice it on thems elves. P. 171. Hunter and/Janna. Hunter is well known to have been as superior in practice as he was in reaso ning. No one will shove him aside as a pure speculatis t, to make way for self-called exclusively practical men, the most arran t of pre» tenders in medicine. Could the cases, in whic h others failed and Darwin invented adequate resources, be collected, I have rea- son to believe that they would make as valuable a volu me as any one which we possess. In his attempt to lay down the fundamental laws of organic life he has faded with all others. Buthow many observations of the most rare and estimable species, at once just and subtle, is he perpetuall thro y wing out! How rich is his work in practical matte r, and \ 'ith what unostentatious conciscness is it delivered! He has single paragraphs, sufficient to found the fortune of a :riore il'lflil ordin a y man's reputation, and his own would have risen much ca: 5 and have continued to be more respected, had he devel oped separate ideas in sepa‘ate treatisrs, and style .2 {mail/ta]. His application ofdig dis to consumption, ant '.. suggestion of the circular swing might easily have been followed up so as to yield material: each i '1 valuable worl;.«--Elis iise of splints togive fun: to tiv' ' Gxtt‘zlior minds of the upper nun |