This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... temptuously rejected as unworthy objects of cure. Does a cure remove anything besides these ?* [3] 7. As a matter of course, every sensible physician will remove such causes at first; after which, the illness will generally subside of its own accord. lie will remove from the sick-room flowers that may ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... temptuously rejected as unworthy objects of cure. Does a cure remove anything besides these ?* [3] 7. As a matter of course, every sensible physician will remove such causes at first; after which, the illness will generally subside of its own accord. lie will remove from the sick-room flowers that may produce faintness or hysteria by their strong exhalations; he will extract irritating particles causing inflammation of the cornea; reapply to a wounded limb a bandage threatening gangrene, too tightly applied; he will avert the danger of a haemorrhage, by exposing and tying the wounded artery; he will endeavor to expel Belladonna berries from the stomach by emetics; extract foreign substances that may have penetrated into the apertures of the body (nose, oesophagus, ears, urethra, rectum, vulva), crush a calculus, and open the occlusion of the anus of a newborn child, etc. [4] 8. It has ever been the habit of the old school, not knowing how else to proceed, to sinife out one of the numerous symptoms of a disease for the purpose of attacking, and, if possible, of suppressing it by medicines; an abortive procedure having justly excited universal contempt under the name of symptomatic treatment, by which nothing is gained but much is sacrificed. A single symptom is no more the disease itself, than a foot can be taken for the entire body. Such a procedure was the more objectionable, because it was the practice to treat such a single symptom only by an opposite remedy (enantiopathic and palliative), whereby, after a brief space of relief, it was made to return with greater intensity. [5] 8. Whenever a patient has been relieved of his disease by an adept of the true healing art, in such a manner that no sign or symptom of disease is left, ...
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