Natural hygiene, or, healthy blood : the essential condition of good health and how to attain it a treatise for physicians and their patients on the predisposition to and prevention of disease / by H. Lahmann.

  • Heinrich Lahmann
Date:
1898
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Credit: Natural hygiene, or, healthy blood : the essential condition of good health and how to attain it a treatise for physicians and their patients on the predisposition to and prevention of disease / by H. Lahmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The cause of any disease from the standpoint of natural Science is always internal and termed by us empirically the predisposition. Microbes or germs [and the atmospheric influences], are only the special exciting (secondary) cause, and cannot therefore be regarded as the cause from the stand- point of natural Science. To these two causal factors must be added a third : the conditions which impel the exciting (secondary) cause to act with the primary cause. If one of these factors is absent, no disease can develop in the body.—From the report of a lecture by Prof Hueppe, bacteriologist, Prague, in the “ Allgem. mediz Zentralzeitung” of April ist, 1891. Nowadays we hear rather too much of micro- organisms as possible causes of disease; we know less of the atmospheric influences, which were in former times looked upon as causes of disease, but, at any rate, we know something about them; and we’ understand to some extent the conditions which impel he exciting (accidental) causes to act with the primary fundamental) cause in giving rise to disease: but the fundamental cause itself, the constitutional predisposi- tion, is entirely unknown to us. The want of a System of therapeutics which treats the real causes of disease (our present System is almost entirely restncted to treating Symptoms), the want of a proper System of prophylactics, the want of success of
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