Cod liver oil and tuberculosis
2011; BMJ; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.d7505
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
ResumoMalcolm Green revisits an 1848 study of cod liver oil in the treatment of tuberculosis The Royal Brompton Hospital is well known for studies evaluating the use of streptomycin and other chemotherapy for tuberculosis (TB) in the 1940s to 1960s, but it is less widely known that the physicians at the hospital were already investigating treatments for TB 100 years earlier. This is a report of a study conducted in 1848. Fig 1 Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton In their report, the medical officers felt it their duty to bear testimony to the judgement evinced in the selection of the site for the hospital: The hospital is built on a dry gravelly soil, in a suburb of the metropolis long celebrated for its salubrity, sheltered on the north and east by the metropolis and open to the south and west; the wards are lofty and the corridors light and capacious . 542 inpatients with consumption were treated with cod liver oil, in a dose of 1 drachm (3.6 ml) three times a day, gradually increased, in some few cases up to 1.5 ozs (42 ml) per dose. The oil is straw coloured, transparent and free from offensive smell. Patients take it in general …
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