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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 97 The use of creasote in the treatment of phthisis pulmonalis dates back to 1830, the year in which it was discovered by Reichenbach, of Blausko, in Moravia. Later on, it fell into disuse, like some other valuable medicaments, and for nearly thirty years previous to 1877 it was practically of little or no importance in the therapeutics of pulmonary disease. At the date just referred to, Drs. Bouchard and Gimbert again revived interest in this drug by publishing a very complete article in the Gazette Hebdomadaire, of Paris, on its beneficial effects in consumption. They claimed for it excellent results, and for careful, learned, and honest observers, their account was as nearly enthusiastic as thorough work is apt to be. Shortly after reading of the observations of Bouchard and Gimbert, I began to use creasote in the treatment of pulmonary phthisis, and in a clinical lecture delivered at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and published in the Medical Record of September 21, 1878, page 223, I mention in what manner I have used it and with what results in the following terms: "For several months, both in the Outdoor Department of the New York Hospital, at Charity Hospital and elsewhere, I have given dessert-spoonlul doses of the mistura creasoti of our Pharmacopoeia to lessen the quantity of sputa in phthisis. 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.