The Theory and Treatment of Feversauthor, 1844 - 198 Seiten The first medical book published in Missouri. Sappington, a physician in Saline County, began prescribing quinine for his patients with malaria, with considerable success. He soon taught his slaves to manufacture the pills, and in 1832 began their wholesale distribution. After accumulating considerable wealth and notoriety, Sappington published his methods in this text. DAB calls it " ... perhaps the first medical treatise written west of the Mississippi ..." Perotti, pp. 27-29. |
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Seite 28 - The mutual action between the elements of the food and the oxygen conveyed by the circulation of the blood to every part of the body is the source of animal heat. " All living creatures whose existence depends on the absorption of oxygen possess within themselves a source of heat independent of surrounding objects.
Seite 28 - ... Physiology has sufficiently decisive grounds for the opinion, that every motion, every manifestation of force, is the result of a transformation of the structure or of its substance ; that every conception, every mental affection, is followed by changes in the chemical nature of the secreted fluids ; that every thought, every sensation, is accompanied by a change in the composition of the substance of the brain.
Seite xv - ... of society. It would capacitate men of moderate abilities to practise the art of healing with real advantage to the public; it would enable every one of literary acquirements to distinguish the genuine disciples of medicine from those of boastful effrontery, or of wily address; and would teach mankind in some important situations the knowledge of themselves.
Seite 127 - This information satisfied me that my apprehensions were well founded. The origin of this fever was discovered to me at the same time, from the account which Dr. Foulke gave me of a quantity of damaged coffee which had been thrown upon Mr. Ball's wharf, and in the adjoining dock, on the 24th of July, nearly in a line with Mr. Le Maigre's house, and which had putrefied there to the great annoyance of the whole neighbourhood.
Seite xv - Nature, that should bind together the scattered facts of medical knowledge, and converge into one point of view the laws of organic life, would thus on many accounts contribute to the interests of society.
Seite 128 - On the 19th of this month (August) I was requested to visit the wife of Mr. Peter Le Maigre, in Water Street, between Arch and Race Streets, in consultation with Dr. Foulke and Dr. Hodge. I found her in the last stage of a highly bilious fever. She vomited constantly, and complained of great heat and burning in her stomach. The most powerful cordials and tonics were prescribed, but to no purpose. She died on the evening of the next day.
Seite 85 - In this way, angels may be changing places from a higher to a lower, or from a lower to a higher...