Lectures on clinical medicine / [John Hughes Bennett].

  • John Hughes Bennett
Date:
1850-1856]
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    leads to ulceration and wasting, we have to combat the preliminary phenomena :< of exudation locally, whilst we improve the nutritive powers of the economy )] generally. To meet the first indication, counter-irritation and an equable cli- ti mate are useful ; whilst for the second, we must overcome the dyspepsia so »j hostile to a correct primary digestion, and supply the system with easily assi- II milable animal oils, without which nutrition cannot proceed. 5. In cancerous exudations we must endeavour to restrain the advance of ? growth, by cold, dryness, and pressure ; attempt its eradication by excision, 1 if this can be appropriately practised; and diminish the tendency to accu- $ mulation of nutritive materials in the system, by keeping the excretory func- fj tions in full activity. The general indications for treatment now alluded to, of course admit of i infinite variations and modifications in individual cases. In the meantime, ? what I have to tell you with respect to these, will, I think, be more readily i; comprehended from the preceding considerations.
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