On the treatment of the hemorrhagic diathesis / by James Miller.

  • Miller, James, 1812-1864.
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[1842]
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Credit: On the treatment of the hemorrhagic diathesis / by James Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE TREATMENT OF THE HEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS., C By JAMES MILLER, Esq., F.R.S.E., LECTURER ON SURGERY, AND ONE OF THE SURGEONS TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH. . READ BEFORE THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, 1ST JUNE 1842. (E rtracted from the London and Edinburgh Medical Journal for June 1842.; Several interesting1 cases of this troublesome and dangerous disease have lately been read before this Society, and others have been detailed in various periodicals of the day. In almost all, the issue has been most disastrous; the treatment, though active and varied, proving of little effect in even retarding the fatal result,—a proof that, while on many points therapeutics have of late years advanced rapidly and surely, on this we can lay no claim to modern improvement. To enter fully into the subject would probably require an ex- tended range of both chemical and physiological experiment, directed towards the elucidation of the formation and actual nature of the morbid condition of the blood and blood-vessels, on which the liability to hemorrhage depends; and it is much to bo regretted, that in this age of chemical and microscopical research, some one adequate to the task has not laboured in this field so rich in promise. Meanwhile, however, an inquiry into the amount of knowledge at present attained, and an attempt to methodise the practical inferences deducible therefrom, so as to render them more available towards successful treatment, may prove not with- out its use ; both as calculated to enable us to contend more sa- tisfactorily with future instances of the disease, and also as con- situting a sound preliminary step towards the further and more thorough investigation of the subject. To aid in the obtaining of that step, I would beg briefly to direct attention. And, first, as to the nature and cause of the morbid state. For. A