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while the latter are transient, though, no doubt, at times di-


treeeing and severe.


matter


nings of the disease may be, the
should say to the patient, "You I


how slight, then, the


begin-


moment we are certain, we
have what will result in con-


sumption '


without proper management."


fait,


in most


cases, we can say,


" You have the beginning of


consumption."


the announcement is made


min a proper


manner,


which


the physician's tact
idiosyncrasy of his


neutralized
other state


will enable him to vary according to


patient, the


shock is


slight,


, and the patient's confidence reassured,


ent


that,


with


due care, and


proper


Id entirely
by the fur-


hygienic and


remedial


measures, the


disease can


be cured


just as certainly


as many other diseases.
superfluous attempt, at


It would be a


this "epoch


waste of


of medical


time, and a


history, to un-


dertake
sidered
reason
chronic


prove this.


for this.


Consumption


always


medicorum.


Consumption is


affection-more so


than


as curable


many


been


con-


there is no


as any


them,


other


we can


command
himself
curable


d


the conditions


of cure,


of the proper remedies.


without


patient


avail


Most diseases would be in-


a resort to the proper remedies.


so hap-


pens, however, that most of the best remedies for this disease


are unattainable by tihe majority of those afflicted by it


that


most


patients,


influenced


delusion


which


also,
is so


characteristic


a symptom,


often


by the


concealment of


physician and friends, delay treatment.
ity. The cure of phthisis will never be I


any combination of


indeed


drugs, although


thee


, in most cases, indispensable auii


Hence its great fatal-
found in any drug or
ie are valuable, and,
liaries. There is no


disease, in which skillful diagnosis, sound judgment, judicious
advice as to habits, occupation, climate, all the minutim which


enter into individual


daily life, are


so well


repaid


by corre-


spending success as in this.


Change is generally the key-note


to our management of incipient phthisis-change of locality,
of air, of almost all the habits, leaving off bad and adopting
good; wntilabtwn rs e (judiciously managed),iuod. Now,


it wbuld be mockery almost for


ns to


say to the


poor


sdoe-


.i~raik a- 1 .


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of the opprobria


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