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Credit: Consumption: (phthisis) its nature and treatment / By John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREFACE. a. One fundamental idea pervading this work is, Fundamental that Phthisis, more especially that connected with work, the pt n iiT77 existence of the presence of diseased parts, called tubercles, in the»cachexia. lung tissue, can be developed only when there exists in the individual a special unhealthy habit, a cachexia (%<x%og, kakos, bad; and sfys, eksis, habit). And this fundamental idea is in this work developed Fundamental 1 idea, to what to the extent of demonstrating, that the phthisical ^jnt devel cachexia is not single, but is multiform, and that each cachexia has distinctive characters, and that these distinctive cachexias must be recognised and medi- cinally met, in order that Phthisis, thereupon resulting and therewith connected, may be treated scientifically. b. A second fundamental idea, one indeed which Second fundamental grows out of the first, is, that in order to effect a cureidea' £**for o ' ] cure, the spe- of the cough, the expectoration, the hectic fever, the ^^ee^f night - sweats, the emaciation, the rapid pulse, the ^ftnised and hurried breathing, and other symptoms, so generally present in Phthisis, the special cachexia in connexion with which all these symptoms develop themselves, must be recognised in all their particulars; and, fur- ther, that any attempt to remove these symptoms, A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21025587_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
