The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal Volume 13

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1872 Excerpt: ... The seeds of the cotton tree, gossypium arboraceum, have been administered in coughs on account of the mucilage they contain. The cotton wood is used in medicine in making moxas. ECLECTIC DEPARTMENT. Carpere et colligere. Art. I.--History And Statistics Of The Operation Of Transfusion Of Blood. v, By W. B. Drinkard, M. D., M. B. C. S., Demonstrator of Anatomy, National Medical College; one of the Surgeons to the Children's Hospital, plead before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. Without pretension to giving to the subject the space to which its importance entitles it, the following resume only aims at calling attention to a somewhat neglected point of operative surgery, which, for its simplicity of application, the brilliancy of its results, and the comparative oblivion which has enshrouded it of late years, has, perhaps, no parallel in the list of surgical remedies. As a result of that fitful caprice which seems to sway the medical mind, as all others, some points of doctrine, therapeutic agents or surgical appliances', greeted with applause and with flattering satisfaction on their first appearance, reign for a while by their right of vogue, and then gradually lapse into disuse, disfavor or forgetfulness, as the varnish of their newness wears away. Others, again, born and reborn, as it were, in difficult travail, acknowledged, legitimized, holding a place conquered by painstaking research and elaborate clinical investigation, Kem fated always to stand among the novelties, and to bear continually, despite their venerable titles, the odium that has attached itself to the youth of moat really useful or striking discoveries. Among the latter must be counted the operation of the transfusion of blood, a procedure antecedent, in its hypot...