Volume 1

Clinical researches on disease in India / by Charles Morehead.

  • Charles Morehead
Date:
1856
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Credit: Clinical researches on disease in India / by Charles Morehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    physician is constantly reminded of the obstacles which these asthenic and cachectic states interpose to the suc- cess of his remedies, and of the necessity which is thereby entailed upon him of making the removal of these states a leading indication in the management of the special disease which has been grafted on them. Thus, among others, two important practical lessons are enforced: — 1st. Though the statement and inculcation of the details of sanitary measures are not within the province of clinical medicine, yet the paramount importance to the public health of a well organized system of medical police is a prominent inference from clinical research. 2nd. The advantage derived in practice by the re- moval of the sick from the influence of the causes of cachexia? impresses upon the mind of the physician this truth, — That a rational system of medicine is one that includes a just arrangement of the vital stimuli and the removal of Itedentia, as well as the use of me- dicines ; and that, when the cachectic states are very marked, then the two first therapeutic principles are the most important. The principles hinted at in these few remarks will be frequently illustrated in these pages with reference to particular forms of disease. The importance of regarding asthenic and cachectic conditions of constitution in the treatment of all forms of disease is true of every country. But, when inves- tigation has reference to a particular country, it then becomes a preliminary question with the inquirer to determine whether, as regards the field of his observa- tion, there is any special cause of these states generally operative or not. In applying this rule to India I would remark that,
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