Of the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy: of the forms, seats, complications, and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / By James Copland.

  • James Copland
Date:
1850
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Credit: Of the causes, nature, and treatment of palsy and apoplexy: of the forms, seats, complications, and morbid relations of paralytic and apoplectic diseases / By James Copland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to a perverted nutrition; and that they are independent of inflammatory action in the coats of the arteries. Of the imperfections of this as well as of his other works, no one can be more convinced than the Autho1 is himself; for he has neither had the time, nor has he enjoyed the opportunities or the occasions, requisite to the full attainment of what he desired, or of . perfecting satisfactorily to himself that which he attempted. In certain other circumstances he might have accomplished more; the could not have done much less than he has done; for that which still appears to himself but little, imperfect, and hence unsatisfactory, has been produced under no cheering influences— during the anxieties and interruptions incidental to the practice of his pro- fession — chiefly during hours which are generally de- voted to the restoration of powers exhausted by the mental and physical labours of the day. Old Burlington Street, March 1850.