Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    dates in the second and third columns of that table with the period of convalescence. It will there appear that the patients entered from the 1st to the 15th day of the disease; the following table will exhibit the results. TABLE VIII. 2 entered on the 1st day of disease, average convalescence 8£ day. 9 . . 2d 11T2X 2 . . 3d 13 7 . . 4th ...... 12 3 . . 5th ...... 18J 4 . . 6th ...... 12^ 1 7th 16 4 . . 8th ...... 144 1 . . 14th 24 1 . . 15th 26 As however our numbers are small we shall have a better and fairer view of the subject by the following statement. Twenty entered on the 1st to the 4th day inclusive, and the average period for these was 11^ days. In these is included XIII. a woman who was already in the hospital when seized with pneumonitis, and is represented there- fore as having entered on the first day. Excluding her case as doubtful, the average period of the other 19 cases is llxir, or nearly 12 days. Twelve entered from the 5th to 8th day inclusive, and the average periodj for these was 14J days. Here is a difference (between 12 days and 14J) of a little less than a fifth of the larger number. Two entered, one on the 14th, and one on the 15th day of disease, and their average period was 25 days. It will be seen presently that no other circumstance