A Treatise On The Science And Practice Of Medicine Or The Pathology And Therapeutics Of Internal Diseases Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Samuel Henry Dickson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331031796
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics (Classic Reprint) written by Samuel Henry Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics The discussion of the nature, origin, and cause of diseases has become emphatically practical. In the progress of scientific research, our profession has proved itself unwilling to trust any longer to absolute empiricism in therapeutics, and we feel ourselves compelled to follow some definite methods of logical reasoning, in explanation of the various modes of treatment suggested for the vast variety of maladies which fall under our observation and care. We must decide, each for himself, at the outset of our career, what course we shall pursue. If disease be merely an exaggeration and intensification of health; if fever consist merely in augmentation of vital heat, as Parkes and Ringer seem to maintain, and Aitken seems to admit; if inflammation be mere phlogosis; if all irritation, with its vast diversity of phenomena, be, as Broussais would have it, mere excitement of normal irritability; then, following Broussais, we shall be content with subtracting from its pabulum, with abating the inordinate vis vit; absolute diet and leeches and gum-water will constitute our therapeutic arsenal. If, with Brown, and Todd, and Chambers, we look upon it as essentially asthenic, as consisting in abatement of vital power on the other hand; we shall trust for "the renewal of life" in stimulants, cordials, and nutritious food and drinks. If we regard it as an effort of a special restorative, or protective agent - a vis medicatrix - "an inherent curative power," we shall be careful how we interfere with it; we shall be content with the most patient expectancy, and institute no measures, unless in subserviency and correspondence with the movements of nature. 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."