A series of essays on inflammation and its varieties : tending to show, that most diseases either consist in inflammation, or are consequences of it, more or less remote / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D.

  • Henry Clutterbuck
Date:
1846
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Credit: A series of essays on inflammation and its varieties : tending to show, that most diseases either consist in inflammation, or are consequences of it, more or less remote / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Inflammation is a disease of the most fre- quent occurrence, and from which no part of the living body is altogether, and at all times, exempt. It is peculiar to no clime nor country; and it affects, indiscriminately, all ages and constitutions. It arises under the greatest possible variety of circumstances, and is produced by a number of causes, many of which are in constant operation, or to which the body is habitually exposed. When to all this we add, that it is often the occasion of the greatest suffering to the patient, and is at the same time, of all diseases, infinitely the most fatal in its results, the extreme importance of the subject will not be questioned. This, in- deed, appears to have been very generally felt;
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