Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders.

  • Sanders, James, 1777-1843.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (p. 220.) that certain properties are so combined in the digitalis as to give it its common^ but by no means constant^ power of re- ducing the frequency of the pulse. Who from such data could conclude any thing certain, except that the authors had no cor- rect knowledge of the subject on which they wrote ? In fine, we are informed, that digitalis shall be taken daily for a considerable time without producing any effect^ till, all at once, the most dreadful exhaustion ensue, accom- panied with enormous diminution of the pulse, nausea, vomiting, and a most oppres- sive sensation about the prsecordia.'* Is it not repugnant to every thing that our mind is capable of conceiving, that a most powerfully deleterious substance, one half grain of which is said to have produced the most direful effects, should be so capri- cious in its operation as to be received into the system daily for a considerable time, and then, by one assault, like a lion dart- ing from his concealment, fiercely attack the unwary victim ? The habit of body fitted for the recep- tion of digitalis, is not the robust or the phlogistic, as Dr Beddoes hypothetically