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Elements of Therapeutics and Materia Medica (Volume 1); To Which Are Prefixed Two Discourses on the History and Improvement of the Materia Medica, Originally Delivered as Introductory Lectures
Nathaniel Chapman
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-01.
ISBN 9781150824395
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... SECTION IV. THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OP EMETICS. Next 1 am to point the use of emetics in the treatment of diseases. But in doing so, I shall enumerate only the more prominent cases in which they are employed. As of the highest importance T commence with their application to the cure of fever. It is scarcely to be expected, on such an occasion as the present, that I can do more than offer a mere summary of the pathology of this disease. Declining, therefore, the discussion of a subject so difficult and obscure, 1 shall proceed to state, that the question which now chiefly divides medical opinion, in regard to the nature of fever, is, whether it has a local or general origin. Does it happen, in other words, in consequence), of some primary irritation of a part followed by a series of mor-1 ' bid associations, involving ultimately more or less of the whole system, or is the original impulse of a general nature, giving, as it were, a shock to the entire frame, and the topical irritation or irritations which may be disclosed, secondary and dependent? It will be perceived, that this is only a revival of an old controversy, which ended partly by common consent, in the division of fever into idiopathic and symptomatic, or such as is without any original local affection, and the reverse. As the result of all my inquiries, observations and reflections on this point, I am led to the conclusion, that every fever, whatever its character may be, is necessarily secondary or sympathetic, proceeding from some primary local irritation. Looking at the modus operandi of its diverse causes, the phenomena which attend its rise, progress, and termination, the principle on which the cure is conducted, and the appearances revealed on dissection, such a view is irresistibly enfo
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