Excerpt from On the Treatment of Pleurisy: With an Appendix of Cases, Showing the Value of Combinations of Croton Oil, Ether, and Iodine, as Counter-Irritants in Other DiseasesCareful statistics from great charities have helped to fix the real value of many remedies. When life is at stake we dare not lightly risk new things. In pre senting any fancied improvements before so many accomplished physicians, it is but just, frankly to give the facts and figures on which they are based. Let us gladly appeal to numbers. From the report of Dr. Aigner of his European tour, it appears that, doubt less from our vast emigration, the dispensaries of New York are the largest in the world.* The writer pro poses to discuss the general treatment of pleurisy, and the use of croton-oil and the tincture of iodine as substitutes for fly-blisters, in this lowly field. His ex perience was mainly during several years of service as physician to the class Of Diseases of the Chest and Throat, in the New York and Eastern Dispensaries. These investigations were commenced more than twenty years since. They were principally in the first of the above institutions, which was the most vener able and extensive.Many here will remember a quaint, Old brick building that then stood on the site of the present elegant edifice in Centre street, near the Five Points.See Annual Report of the New York Dispensary for 1863. St. Bartholomew's and other hospitals in London have very large Out Door Departments but the regular dispensaries of European cities are much smaller than ours.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.