...utmost discrimination is required in the use of stimulants. There are cases where an undoubted I'enefit is produced by them ; but there are others, and these...scepticism with which I am acquainted. It is not only in tiiese severe cases of disease, but in lesser troubles, that your recimmendation of stimulants may...

...of another gentleman of the same age, who had just died of pneumonia, and who had taken a large lot of brandy, I readily acquiesced in the patient's own...well-tried remedies, evinces the very worst form of medical skepticism with which I am acquainted. "It is not only in these severe cases of disease, but in lesser...

...where alcohol hae induced palpitation, fluttering, great distress and constant sleepless nights, and where, on the other hand, the withdrawal of the spirit and the substitution of a dose of digilalis or henbane has been of the m -»t essential service. The administration of a stimulus, in...

...larger majority would recover under the old antiphlogistic treatment than by the more modern method of brandy. As regards heart-disease, the utmost discrimination...essential service. The administration of a stimulus, in ihe attempt to overcome disease, in lieu of good and well-tried this kind leads to an erroneous and...

...and these I have seen repeatedly, where alcohol has induced palpitation, fluttering, greatdistress, and constant sleepless nights, but where, on the other...the attempt to overcome disease, in lieu of good and well tried remedies, evinces the very worst form of medical scepticism with which I am acquainted....