British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 28 The use of emetics he seems to have regarded as prejudicial. Topically, he reprobated the application of caustics, and employed either bland or aromatic gargles, injecting the latter, in the younger patients, with a syringe; and he was favourable to the use of blisters when applied between the shoulders. He anticipated profit from a more extended trial of mercurial inunction than he had known to be attempted. Upon the whole, the more closely the treatise of Villarreal is studied, the more readily, we are convinced, will its merits be admitted; and our recent observers in diphtheria may look to their laurels, if we are to weigh what they have accomplished, with their modern advantages, against the fruits of the clear and philosophical spirit of inquiry and observation displayed with reference to the disease at so remote a period, and by this almost unknown or forgotten physician. Of the writings of his Spanish contemporaries on the subject, we have only seen the dissertations by De Fontecha, by Andres de Tamayo, Herrera, and Gil y de Pina, besides the short monograph by Mercado already referred to; but meritorious, in many respects, as these are, as well as generally superior to what we encounter contemporaneously in Italy, none of them can yet be held to rival the treatise of Villarreal in the full body of doctrine he has established regarding the disorder. That of so evidently able a writer and investigator we should only possess this single work, though he appears to have contemplated others, must be a matter of regret to us: that we possess no record of his career, even to the extent of the date of his birth and of his death, is to us a defect, but to his countrymen a discredit. Sure we are that in every country many a glittering reputation has been built, and many a rich reward gathered, on far less enlightened labours than those which, with regard to him, have been suffered to glide towards the verge of oblivion; if, indeed, they at any time stood apart from it, for we have no evidence that his treatise ever passed beyond a first edition, notwithstanding the interest which then necessarily attached to its subject. We cannot venture to extend pity to such a man, so high in his endowments, if apparently so humble in his fortunes; but we may well pity the age that seems to have debarred him from the use of those large opportunities, and that conspicuous and ample sphere of duty, the chief reward of which would have been to its advantage and might have widened our inheritance. But if we leave Villarreal, little satisfied with what has been evidently to him a negation of his just honours and competent sphere of action, it is only to turn to another proof of the wantonness of fortune, and to find in Herrera the object of a more direct ingratitude; for to him the sphere of action was opened, the results sought by him were to a large extent accomplished, but their reward, beyond the rich one dependent on a sense of duty, was withheld. Of Christobal Perez de Herrera, Antonio speaks as of a man full of piety, prudence, and learning. His claims to distinction were manifold; for he was eminent as a physician, a socio-political reformer, a soldier, and a poet. Born at Salamanca, according to Morejon, in 1558, but probably somewhat earlier, his works nevertheless appeared for the most part in the prior portion of the seventeenth century, where therefore they fitly offer themselves to our consideration. He was a student and graduate of Alcala, having been a pupil of Valles. One of his first public appointments was that of physician in chief of the Galleys of Spain; and towards the close of the century he was honoured with a place as one of the physicians of the King. We are reminded of the exploit of our late eminent surgeon, Mr. Guthrie, when he served with Lord Cochrane, while we read of some of the soldierly achievements
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