Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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    Chapter ^fourteen Qfctiftcuil Ctrcfee LLUSTRATIONS of Circles which are not due to disease, but are artefacts, will be found in most of the preceding Chapters. It will be useful, however, to group under a separate heading some additional examples Uft0. XIII.). Cathartics. The excessive use of cathartics, due to the wide-spread advertisement of quack remedies or to the impatience of over-zealous disciples of Aisculapius, is responsible for many an artificial Circle. The irritation of the mucous membranes brought about by indiscriminate drugging depraves the secretions and produces a condition which is urged as a plea for further purgation : “ And thus the practice proceeds in a Vicious Circle of habit from which the patient is rarely extricated without more or less injury to his future health.” 1 1 Sir Henry Holland, Medical Notes and Reflections, p. 100, called attention to this Circle as far back as 1839, and there are probably still earlier references.