A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip.

Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    continued irritation of the whole system had impaired the vigour of all its organs. Such a ease is full of instruction to the reflecting physician, and gives us many les- sons in the prevention of organic disease. Habitual disease is like the dropping of water on the stone; every drop does something, although its effect cannot be perceived. This, in the animal system, is what crime is in the moral; its effects extend in a thousand ramifi- cations, and neither its limits nor its tenden- cies can be calculated. The functions both of mind and body are influenced; and who can number their functions, or trace all the effects of the changes in any one ? The animal system is a whole ; one part cannot be disturbed without more or less influencing every other. In the case just mentioned, the friends of the invalid could make no estimate of the causes which had everywhere gradually weakened the powers of life, and, from the peculiar sympathies of the constitution, the lungs in particular; they could only wonder that a person, none of