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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. 1880. Excerpt: ... Section II. On the Use of Antiphlogistic Treatment in Special Acute Diseases. The acute diseases might be fairly well classified, in a very general manner, according to the more or less distinct indications for antiphlogistic treatment which they present. At the head of such a list would stand the phlegmasia and the inflammatory fevers par excellence, or those in which there is no evidence of an essentially destructive morbid principle, a disorganizing force which directly attacks life, or even a constitutional cause, behind the symptoms and the lesions of the inflammatory act. It is this first class of acute diseases that Hunter called healthy, and Stoll designated by the perfectly correct term natural phlegmasia, natural inflammatory fevers, inflammationes genuinae, febrea inflammatories genuituB. What is the meaning of these favorite expressions of his? The illustrious clinicist doubtless means that of all diseases these possess a principle which is in itself the least harmful, the most natural, and the least remote from the state of health; they are the diseases which least disorganize the parts, whose products have the greatest tendency to become organized, and whose symptoms, progress, etc., have the greatest resemblance to the performance of natural functions. Everything that we see in these diseases, the febrile reaction, various inflammations, etc., is legitimate, and does not mask a specific affection; in other terms, the basis of the disease is related to the symptoms. It is then, in short, that we can say that the disease manifests itself by its natural symptoms; for in combating these manifestations by the remedies which they physiologically require, that is, by their contraries, the entire disease is combated at once. There are other disease...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217649629
- ISBN 13 9780217649629
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages146
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