Pathological inquiries, or, An attempt to explain the phenomena of disease, and philosophically to direct the methods of cure / By George Smith Gibbes.

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
[1818]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pathological inquiries, or, An attempt to explain the phenomena of disease, and philosophically to direct the methods of cure / By George Smith Gibbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    38/122 (page 32)
    CLe couiiliue.*;) longer feo! 5i:rp)ti il'.at ilistuuHX ol ilit lii- jli'Mivti orp;iiii» uud poi-oiious ’i.'iarniiiui sliimld ecj.iaHv aud iiiiiih.rly ilisturh >bp i-iii-rnies of [ha ii*'rvi)us sjsiei.., ci-- fever?’’ He further siiv s. *• \va now bear no more of (bo.-e auoieiit in ■iaph'’!'<, coiiC'icii''ii .'ir.il ero.-ioii; but v.'O liiiii ill! viie niorbiii <'j!.;iiixes i.eetiuu'ed for by il, ■ p ■r'. ' rii'd anion of (he ordliiarv (uiwi’r-i and >ini<'iiir''S ot pnii.-: c; ;',y perceivinfjj tlial tii.’ same powers and or;i.iiiizaiKMi, v.bi-. i, l y iheir luiiunil ti.id C'ommfiri .'.nlia.' (.ukIiii'i' licaltli ai d la ' y of npiieaniuoe, do, wlien perxeri'-'w'. oei'a»ioii disease airl <l'’- foruiiiy.” I roiii the forey^oiup (piuiai.or..'. a.s well as the opinions every where I’Xpressed bv iIh'm; truly ('s.imablo physicloj^istn, we find that disorde;-' are propiisratt'd in the inw man frame from one p;irl ;o j.tiotber b.' sjnijaitliy ; and thtit if for insianee the stomiiob be disordered, eoirespundent mor- liid actions (tike pltiee in organs sv mpaihrtically ooniit'eted with it, and that coiistitiitioiial alTections are till deptnidtint on the part primarily aeiiul upon, the stomach. That thus disonier and disease t)f one ornan, we say the siomtieh, are CquJill}'and similarly traiistniiled tonll other ptirts sympatlie- iioall) cviineefed, and iheir disturbance is etpially and simi- larly excited. .\coordin:5 to this view of the subject, it ap- pears to me nearly impossible to couct ive tliiit the Iniuian constiluiioti could evrr be iu a slate of healih or of comfort; it is ttiving to disease a nialijjiitmt propiiiriilioii of itself with- out one ulterior advavifajte, tmd the laws which rejruUite the Liimaii econoinv a gencial stibserviency to all oITt'iidiiie; and morbid causes, 1 should rather say, tlnit the power of the stomachiigaiusi oliendi.n^ causes,were re-active tout remedial, and that when tlisiant p.-irts are svnipalheiieally afl'ected, the disturbanee that is (weited eille r r^.-sists the siontaeli in its curative operations, or dislodges by itself the tsiiise ajrtiinst whieh the powt rs of the slouuu'Ii had been unequal (o con- tend. Distant p.arts olteii co-operate for the purpose of ex- pelling evils; thus llie stmiiaeb and liver may, and often do nnite their powers in carrying elf morbid accimmlations; iUitl a distant part may jissi.-t organs j rimarily afl'ecled, aiu! excite nciions whieh btdn to dislodge the offending cause. Thus the sloimieh, bj ilie coi;eii>sioii.s arising from vomiting, causes ooncn’Iitms I0])n.ss, the. ureters being syiiipathetically called into action bv the irritation of tlie ptis-sing calculus, iff. Ahcnjeilty -..ti;. reu.ar'ucd, iu Lis work on Uie disQrtkra