Lectures : chiefly clinical / by Thomas King Chambers.

  • Thomas King Chambers
Date:
1865
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Credit: Lectures : chiefly clinical / by Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASE AND CURE. Classification of disease, for practical purposes, into deficiencies of growth and deficiencies of moulting—(I) Deficiencies of growth from Chossafs observations—Analogous natural states m disease—(II) Deficiencies of moulting, true and apparent—Mixed lesions—Natural cure and artificial cure —Cure originated by the healthy parts of the body—Classi- fication of means of cure—Constructives—Destructives— Arresters of construction—Arresters of destruction. {Introductory Clinical Lecture at St. Mary's Hospital, delivered October 5th, 1863.) You are now entering on the most serious part of your student life; you come to the hospital wards to study Disease— that fitful twilight coming between the glad radiance of life we call healthy and deaths the drear darkness of its departure. You see the gloom sometimes irrevocably deepen^ more often melt back again into the beams of retm-ning day; and you would fain learn how to promote this joyful event which we hail as Cure. To minister to it is to be the business of your lives; and therefore time cannot be wasted in first thoughtfully considering what it is. Healthy life consists in a continuous and equally balanced repetition of the two necessary parts of the renewal of the body_, constructive and destructive assimilation^ in other words^ growing and moulting.The essential nature of disease,, that which makes it disease^ is a deficiency of healthy a deficiency of either construction or destruction in one or more points. The cure of disease^ natural or artificial^ consists in a new birth or renewal of the deficient life. 2