A plain elementary explanation, of the nature and cure of disease : predicated upon facts and experience ; presenting a view of that train of thinking which led to the invention of the patent, portable, warm and hot bath / by Samuel K. Jennings.

  • Samuel K. Jennings
Date:
1814
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Credit: A plain elementary explanation, of the nature and cure of disease : predicated upon facts and experience ; presenting a view of that train of thinking which led to the invention of the patent, portable, warm and hot bath / by Samuel K. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f2 And when the energies of life, are sufficiently pros- trated to place the system in a state liable to disease, I shall call it predisposition with exhausted power.'' In abstracted speculations upon disease, we may lay down discriminations, and rigidly regard classi- cal arrangement, in all our disquisitions upon the sub- ject. But disease in its actual assaults upon the sys- tem is not always ushered in, under the auspices of either of these predisposing circumstances, wholly abstract from the other. They are commonly blend- ed, ai:d one or the other abounds, according to the nature of other co-operating powers, which are to be considered as remote causes of fever. Predisposition to disease, with accumulated pow- er, may be induced by too much sleep, by taking in sud- denly too much nourishment, as is frequently done by ealirrg and drinking at a feast. By taking too little exercise, for the. demands of the system, &c. The or a similar state of things, may be effected by the application of certain agents which possess se- dative powers. As such I shall specialty consider the passion of fear, and the negative agent cold. It is a fact, well known to every man of observation, that fear, like cold, produces paleness of countenance, di- minution of strength, increased frequency of the pulse, and convulsive trembling of the muscles. But cold more frequently than ail other agents of this class, is the remote cause of predisposition to the disease, with accumulated power.
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