On scarlatina and its successful treatment by the acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopoeia / [Isaac Baker Brown].

  • Brown, Isaac Baker, 1812-1873
Date:
1846
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Credit: On scarlatina and its successful treatment by the acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopoeia / [Isaac Baker Brown]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and effect, it advances in usefulness; and I believe that it is the wise and merciful intention of our Creator, to allow man to discover remedies for disease, and that He has purposely placed a remedy within his reach for almost every malady incidental to the human race. More than six years since, whilst earnestly watching this disease, and trying all the remedies which had appeared in different works, I was struck by the observation of my brother, Mr. George Brown, then Assistant to Mr. George Yates Hunter, of Margate, a man of great observation, a careful and successful practitioner, that he (Mr. Hunter,) had fre¬ quently seen the use of acetic acid (distilled vinegar) most beneficial in Scarlet Fever, and that he had seldom or never lost a patient from that disease. Knowing my brother’s rigid spirit of inquiry, I was induced to pay more attention to this observation than I should otherwise have