The Saline Treatment of Dysentery
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It was Sir Ranald Martin who, if I remember aright, said that every method of treatment has been successful in the hands of the man who introduced it; but in presenting this series of over 100 consecutive cases of dj'sentery treated b}7 sulphate of magnesium, this fallacy will not appear, as I have no claims to be the introducer. In fact, as I have shown in another place,* the method appears to have been introduced by Bartholow. In India Dr. Leahy and Dr. "full-Walsh, if not the first to use, have been the first to call attention to, this method
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