The theory and practice of medicine / by Frederick T. Roberts.

  • Frederick Thomas Roberts
Date:
1894
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    as a rule much more sensitive and excitable, and therefore mure liable to various nervous disorders. The proportion of deaths is on the whole greater among males than females. . c General or Constitutional Condition. State of Health, Previous Ill- nesses, etc.—A. state of general debility, whether congenital or acquired, predisposes to many diseases. Possibly the opposite condition of robust- ness and vigour may increase the liability to other affections. The quantity and quality of the blood have also much influence plethoric 01 aneemic individuals, for example, being predisposed respectively to certain complaints. Diseases of various kinds, especially those of an acute nature, frequently predispose to or excite others, e.g the various fevers whoop ng-cough, lung-affections, rheumatism, and syphilis. Certain lymphs, such as cough, particularly if neglected, may be produchve of serious mischief. Habitual neglect m attending to the natural func- tions especially those connected with the alimentary canal, yery com- l?ads to injurious results. The existence of morbid changes m certain organs or tissues may readily induce or predispose to further lesions in them, or may give rise to secondary diseased conations ra ot er parts Thus a fatty or calcified state of the arteries renders them liable to be easily ruptured ; cardiac diseases often set up lung-affections ZTvrceversd: one disease of the lung or heart frequently originates another- while the secondary effects of affections of these organs upon other structures are familiar to all. Other causes of disease which maj be alluded to under this head are direct loss of blood ; ex™ or Jag. continued morbid discharges; and the sudden suppression of an nabi W discharge, of a chronic skin-disease, or of some local development of a constitutional disorder, such as gout. naTOelv d. Temperament.-Vonr principal temperaments a*1^ d ^nie^ a4ne£v.hieh <Io not at all inflnence others in the s^Xm8dininn» t£o caL'with article- of diet, » «sh . SdSS capable of transmission from pa^nt to A n > *n bIt the evidence some of them this belief is „nques .onab j n o hhn .u ^ is by no means so clear or reliable with res pect ..t to borne in mind that members of differenb geuerabio y P^^ the same extrinsic causes of disease, ami t ■ > ■>< maladies certain affections seen, to run through la,nihes g hereditary or general morbid con, ,.,»;,« »«^Jg£ n rit.d-.liso.sos, namely, may be mentioned :-(i.) U ) tarn conscui syphjlis, and the gout, rheumatism, scrofula hemorrhagic diathesis, (u.) some airtcuo