An Inaugural Dissertation on Inflammation: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of ... Moore, D.D. President; For the Degree of Do - Softcover

Walters, Daniel D.

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ISBN 10: 1332265340 ISBN 13: 9781332265343

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Inflammation: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D. President; For the Degree of Doctor of Physic, on the First Day of May, 18 For publishing an Inaugural Dissertation of the nature, and under the circumstances of the present, no apology is to be made, as it is only complying with an ordinance of college. By way of preface, however, the reasons which dictated the choice of the subject may be mentioned, as well as a few seeming objections to the general doctrine answered. The first and principal reason which determined me in the choice of Inflammation as a subject for discussion, was the impossibility which existed in my own mind to accept the theory advanced of that disease by the principal writers of the day. The second was, that I believed that if I could excite some inquiry on the subject, it would not be altogether useless, however far I myself may have fallen short of proving the correctness of the opinions advanced. For a just theory of inflammation once attained, it appears to me would be the unravelling clew to a knowledge of those motions in which that great scourge of our existence, fever, consists; a theory more to be desired by the scientific physician than that of all other diseases put together. Many, no doubt, will observe, that I have taken some things for granted, the truth of which they themselves question. For instance, I have constantly spoken of the fibres of which the brain and nerves are composed, as contractile. 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 ag

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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Inflammation: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D. President; For the Degree of Doctor of Physic, on the First Day of May, 18

Introductory to the following Dissertation, I shall briefly consider the structure, as Well as se veral Of the motions of the solid parts of animal bodies, so far as these, from their vascularity, or from their being made up Of irritable and con tractile fibres, are enabled to perform all those mo tions which peculiarly belong to life. I do this, because it appears to me that the proximate cause of every degree of health is to be found in peculiar changes of motion, and correspondent variations Of structure, of the parts above mentioned.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332265340
• ISBN 13: 9781332265343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 34