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Excerpt from Remarks Relative to Dr. Paine's Commentaries Upon the Writings of M. Louis
But let us commence with the special object of our labors - a review of Dr. Paine's ideas upon the effect of Louis's writings, and ofthe numeri cal (or anatomical, according to Dr. P.) school.
The first sign we have of the terror of our commentator in couse quence of the prevalence of the writings of the anatomical school, ap pears in Vol. 1, when criticizing Marshall Hall's views of venesection, for the London and French pathologists are both classed under one head, although in our opinion entirely distinct characters. However, we will not quarrel with his classification of authors. Dr. Paine quotes the fol lowing from Armstrong's Lectures on Fever. The quotation will serve to show the generalizing powers of the Dr., as well as his dislike for Louis. A patient, at the point of death from acute in?ammation of the pleura and lungs, was bled to the extent of 50 ounces, when he obtained no relief. If we had stopped here, in two hours the patient would have died. After abstracting six ounces more blood, syncope came on, from which he recovered convalescent. We might complain of some dogmatism here, but listen to Dr. Paine: If this patient had been bled in an erect posture, and from both arms, and had syncope fol lowed the loss of 15 or 20 ounces of blood, it is scarcely probable that he would have been saved. Here the importance is fully shown [no gene ralizing here, we presume], not only of abstracting a certain quantity of blood, but of obtaining a full impression from the cerebral influence, in many cases of in?ammatory affections, &lc. Dr. P. Continues, and speaks of Marshall Hall's recommendation not to bleed to perfect symco pe, as being erroneous. In a note to all this, he says that be (dr. Paine) has known many to die from neglect or the inefficient use of the lancet, since our author's [dr. Hall's] and M. Louis's works have been extensively circulated amongst us. (p.
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