"Homeopathic Treatment of Pneumonia", undated

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Title: "Homeopathic Treatment of Pneumonia", undated
Description: Pneumonia
Subject: Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Publisher: State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Date: undated
Contributor: Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Format: image/jpeg
Language: en-US
Type: Text
Identifier: RG9-12-1043_1_7_007
Date Created: 2022-02-08
Is Part Of: Frances Proctor Ames Papers, 1882-1948 (RG 9/12/1043); LIB-UA041
Extent: 6.3x8.6cm
Transcription: Homoeopathic Treatment of Pneumonia Dr. J. W. Dowling, Professor of Diseases of the Heart and Lungs in the Homoeopathic Medical College of New York, says: "There are two distinct sorts of acute pneumonia. The one is due to extension of bronchial catarrh from the air tubes to the lungs proper. This may come from a cold, and generally does. It attacks children, old persons, and people who are prone to pulmonary diseases. This is the broncho-pneumonia, and may be complicated with other troubles. This exists at all times, but is more prevalent in cold, damp, and changeable weather, and makes a shorter finish of people who are predisposed to pulmonary troubles, or who are on the road to the grave with consumption, etc. The other form of pneumonia is what is known as croupous pneumonia, and here the disease starts directly in the lung, and the symptoms are a severe chill, followed by fever and bloody spittle. This form of pneumonia is infectious in so far as it is the result of a specific poison which produces pneumonia and nothing else. It is not contagious, but does sometimes appear to be epidemic. I should say that not over 10 per cent of those who are attacked die of this complaint. This is a general estimate, and it includes all those who are stricken down in this city. In our school of practice," says the Doctor, "we have been very successful in treating this disease. Our treatment has been aconite, phosphorous, and byronia, with flaxseed jackets and hot fomentations in some cases. We are careful in avoiding the morphine treatment and the administering of stimulants, which the old school believes in. Only this month I brought through an old lady seventy-six years of age who was attacked with croupous pneumonia involving the lower and middle lobes of the right lung."
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