A treatise on mortal diseases : containing a particular view of the different ways, in which they lead to death, and the best means of preventing them, by medical treatment, from proving fatal / translated from the Latin, cor., improved, and considerably enlarged, by the author, Conrad George Ontyd.

  • Ontijd, Coenraad Gerard, 1776-1844.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A treatise on mortal diseases : containing a particular view of the different ways, in which they lead to death, and the best means of preventing them, by medical treatment, from proving fatal / translated from the Latin, cor., improved, and considerably enlarged, by the author, Conrad George Ontyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the violence of the ftimulus, which is the manner in which phthifis deftroys; by the violence of the noxi- ous ftimulus, which weakens the folids daily more and more without the confumption of any vital organ, as is the cafe in the lues venerea, fcrofula, rachitis, &c.j by fufFocation, by which thofe who labour under the dropfy of the thorax, are generally carried off; by apoplexy, in which a general dropfy not unfrequently terminates} by fyncope, which manner of dying is particularly common to the fcor- butic, on account of the torpor of their vital prin- ciple; by hemorrhage, by which the flame of life, already deadened by the difeafe, is totally extinguish- ed; by a colliquative flux, which puts an end to life, by depriving the body of it's remaining energy; by the fphacelus of fome organ; by the violence of the morbid ftimulus, by which life is quickly abolifhed, a manner of dying, though unfrequent in the difeafes of this clafs, fometimes happening in the fphacelus; and laftly, in mortification the abforbed ichorous matter, when not fubdued by the vital powers, fometimes produces a malignant fever, which carries off the patient in different ways, according to the various circumftances. In the eleventh clafsy in which death is occafionec] by diforders of the nervous fyftem,. the different ways of dying are not fo numerous; for in the fame manner as all the nervous difeafes may be reduced either to fpafm, or atony, fo likewife the chief ways of dying in this clafs are only two, and life is generally abolifhed either by violent fpafms, or by an apoplectic fit. T t In
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