Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-06-15


lSFIRMARY PRAcrics.-Durng the first
sixteen months of DIR. Benjamin Thomson's
practice in Boston, he gave "more than 1900
courses to more than 1000 patients, and lost
BUT oNE.-T. X. vol. 9, p. 24U. In Concord
N. II. he has since been more successful
having done more business and lost NOME
Vol. 4, pa. ll3-l4.
! Dr. N. =. Tatem, of Norfolk, Va. says, ,Au-
gust 20, 1884: or more than 100 cases of va
rions diseases, he has lost but one, an infant.
Vol. 3. pa. 5a.
! DIR. Hiram Plalt, Of Hartford, Conn, says,
Oct. 8, 1884. that he has administered l73
full courses to 40 patients, and lost but one,
chronic Bonchritis, incurable by the Nj. DPS
Vol. 3, pa. 7S.
! Messrs. Nash s. Tatcm, of the Norfolk, Va,
lnlrniary, says, Jan. ., 1885, "During the
year, we hare received more than 600 pa.
tents, exhibiting the greatest variety of dis
ease; except about 30, all had previously
tried the mineral practice. Ten have died
ont OF the GOO, of consumption, dropsy. and
'cholcra."-Vol. g. page I29, see also I(S3.
DIR. Metcalf of South Hadley, Mass, says,
FEB. 1s, 1857 during the year he has had
ZOO patients, mostly given over to die, or
abandoned as incurablc. Only three died,
two OF consumption, one Of fever; all consid-
cred incurable.-Vol. 3pa. lSl; see also pas.
23l-3
DR.. Benjamin Thompson. of Boston, Mass,
says, (May 9, 1881, of oil the cases of Asia
tic Cholera which have occurred in Boston.
have attended about one-hdLc ,cithout the loss
a single patient, though have not heard of
single patiem sdred who was attended by
the Cholera Hospital Doctors.-WoI. 2, pa.
2S7-S.
DR.. Wesley Il. Newman. of Mount Craw.
ford, Rockingham County, Va. says, MAY l,
1885. "The cases Of sickness attended bv
the members Of our Society, amounts to up
wards of 1000, and but one death in that
number-Vol. 3. p. 2S2.
The Thomsonian Society Of Mechlenburg
County, Va, state that of 100 cases of scarlet
fever, they lost all but-99 while the NJ. DIS
cured 66 out of about Ms many.
DR.. Thos. Neill, of Nenia, Ohio. now at
our elbow, states that he has had more than
GEO patients, and not yet lost one.
DIR. A. Curtis, of Columbus, Ohio, says: In
all our practice since September %, IS32.we
have never lost II patient on ,DhOm zoe ,cere
tie first. the continued, and the ONLY practi-
fionrr in the case. We have never lost case
at all in our lntirmary, either in Richmond or
Columbus. Since our arrival here (though
we wish to practise only enough to illustrate
our instructions to stuGents,) we and our as
sistant have given upwards Of 100 courses Of
medicine, besides rifrcting many cures by
more simple prescriptions. Two patients to
whom we have been called in consultation,
have died, but we have saved several others
that were supposed to be dying. If the fail 4
',re Of their attendants to cure the two, be at
trhu:ed to the nefficiency of the System, we
that, as the mineral practice had pre-
'ious!y destroyed the firmest portions of
heir bodies, 1.-THE teeth. of which there was
not sound one in either head) we have no .
.eason to doubt that the more delicate, d. i
yestive, respiratory and secretive organs 4
we're less injured or more capable ofrcnewa,;
especially as the "mercurial tetor' fully con-
timed our suspicious. While we exhibit Il
hese failures here. and confess that we taed /
O cure a number Of worn out and abandoned 7
Eases in Virgnia,it is but Justice to ourselves
% remark that our object from the beg inning,
,eing rather TO test the full power of the me-
licines, than to gain credit or money for
wonderful cures, we took hold of all sorts of !
:ascs, even those that we had good reason to
suppose were in the very jaws of death. But =
We positively declare, and can easily prove,
hat, for one case that we lost even of these,
We have cured ten that were either said to be ,
lying or abandoned ms incunable, by the reg 4
liar NJ. DIS. We have cured cases that had I
leted the skill Of the most eminent physic-
ans from Maine to Georgia, and zoe can do II !,
Igdin. =,
But we are tired of quoting. Where we
ave spoken of Infirmaries, we have not in
luded the "private practice" /,
ID.