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Von Ziemssen's Handbook of general therapeutics. v.2, 1885
Von Ziemssen's Handbook of general therapeutics v2 1885 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: me to overcome my hesitation, and of which a detailed account is given in the work of the latter in 1866, inaugurated a new epoch in the history of the treatment... more » of fever. It was demonstrated in an objective and strictly scientific way that more than ordinarily favourable results were reached by means of heat-abstractive processes, provided they were of the requisite intensity, and, especially, if employed with the requisite frequency ; and it was shown, moreover, that under such treatment, though frequently repeated, the patient suffered no inconvenience. Since then the method employed at Kiel has, with immaterial variations at times, been adopted in many other hospitals, and, where conducted with the necessary rigour, it has always been followed by extraordinarily favourable results. This has been the case particularly in Barmen, Bremen, Basel, Dresden, Erlangen, St. Gallen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Prague, Vienna, Wiirzburg, Zurich, and other places. Both on the battle-field and in military hospitals numerous physicians have put the method to the test, and found it satisfactory. It has become already so completely naturalised in private practice in many localities that the public anticipates the employment of heat-abstractive process in severe cases of fever as a matter of course. Even in France, since the late war, the cold water treatment has begun to take root. In England, on the contrary, the native land of Currie, the majority of physicians appear still to cling so firmly to their old prejudices and the convenient routine which has prevailed hitherto that they have not been able for once to resolve to give this treatment a trial. The Theory Of The Reduction Of Temperature. The nature and manner of the action of heat-abstractive...« less