An exposition of the principles of pathology, and of the treatment of diseases / [Daniel Pring].
- Pring, Daniel, 1789-1859.
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An exposition of the principles of pathology, and of the treatment of diseases / [Daniel Pring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![termed an artificial metastasis, and is inferred from analogy to the examples of the spontaneous transla¬ tion of disease. 3d, The state of disease may be changed by the influence of properties from a re¬ lated seat under preternatural affection ; and the results of this change may be, first, an affection or modification of the disease, without change of assimilation, the consequences of which affection are manifested only so long as the remedy con¬ tinues to be supplied; second, the state of health in the seat of disease will be resumed; or, third, a substituted form of assimilating disease may be produced; or, fourth, successive states of disease may succeed, terminating either in recovery or death, 5. Those remedies which remove known causes by direct or indirect relation with them. The known causes of disease, except those which are externa], are the effects of disease, which, by their re-action, maintain a state of disease. Among the most obvious of these causes are those which are the objects of surgical treatment, as urinary cal¬ culi, stricture, strangulated hernia, &c.; and in the department of medicine, gall stones, scybala, and other accumulations in the intestines, perhaps schirrous states of organs, or the changes of struc¬ ture, sometimes produced by inflammation. The removal of the first is a mechanical opera¬ tion ; or, in some instances, like that of the latter, is, by the intervention of a previous agency on the properties of life, as in the cure of strictures, &c., upon the condition of which, secondary disease might de])erid. We may, in some instances, easily](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29313752_0506.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
