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Heart and Science

CHAPTER XXXII
5/15

When the limb was removed, not a single vessel bled.

Try the same operation on a man--and twelve or fifteen vessels must be tied as a matter of absolute necessity.
"Again.

We are told by a great authority that the baking of dogs in ovens has led to new discoveries in treating fever.

I have always supposed that the heat, in fever, is not a cause of disease, but a consequence.

However, let that be, and let us still stick to experience.
Has this infernal cruelty produced results which help us to cure scarlet fever?
Our bedside practice tells us that scarlet fever runs it course as it always did.


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