Copy 1, Volume 1

The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author.

  • John Brown
Date:
1795
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Credit: The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But in the terminations of the veffels, which are at a greater diftance from the centre of fome-change. This effect is not produced by heat only (CXV.), but by cold alfo (XVII,), and by all the powers that debilitate in an equal degree. local affe&tion does appear, it is always the laft effect, not the primary caufe. In this way I loft two gentle- men, after having been able to fupport them for many weeks, when the prognofis upon the common practice did not allow them as many hours. The caufe of their indire& debility had been.hard drinking. But even in thofe, who die of a confirmed confumption, there is itot often reafon for the fufpicion of tubercles in the lungs. Their bodies have been opened after death, and the lungs found quite found, Andin the diffections, where the tubercles have been found, füi]l they were only an effect, | | | CHAP?