Excerpt from The Monthly Abstract of Medical Science, Vol. 5: A Digest of the Progress of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences An objection is now and again raised to the salicylate treatment 011 the ground that relapses are especially liable to occur, but so far as we are able to form an Opinion, this objection applies equally, or very nearly equally, to other methods of treatment, and a reference to thirty-two cases lately under observation shows that a relapse took place in ten cases out of eighteen in which the salicylates were used; that recurrence of the symptoms sat in in four out of eight cases under alka lies, and in two out of six cases in which the treatment consisted of a combination of the alkaline and salicylate treatments. One case under alkalies suffered as many as four relapses, while in no case under the other treatments did the pain recur more than twice. Looking to the material at our disposal for a judgment, we incline to the belief that many of the relapses under the salicylate treatment are due to the fact that the medicine has been discontinued too early in the course of the disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.