Asthenology: or the art of preserving feeble life; and of supporting the constitution under the influence of incurable diseases / By Christian Augustus Struve, M.D. translated from the German by William Johnston.
- Christian August Struve
- Date:
- 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Asthenology: or the art of preserving feeble life; and of supporting the constitution under the influence of incurable diseases / By Christian Augustus Struve, M.D. translated from the German by William Johnston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rMTRODtE Lom. ] Eg dying fathers with for fuch an hour, becaufe they expect the arrival of an abfent fon., How grateful is this hour to furviving friends, who have received from a dying man information refpeéting fome important event of his life. Is any thing farther neceffary to give importance to the art of prolonging feeble life ? . Guar, In the prefent period, when the number of afthenic’ difeafes is fo confiderable, this art muft’ recommend itfelf; and indeed never was it fo neceffary both for the phyfician and the patient. This is the caie in particular, among phyficians of the firft clafs, who have to ftruggle againft artificial as well as natural debilities. It too often happens that afthenia exits. to fuch a degree among enervated people, weakened by their mode of life, that no hope is left of reftoring: their loft health; much lefs of converting their en- creafing infirmities into ruftic health and ftrength ; and that the higheft triumph which the medical art can obtain, 1s to affift the gouty voluptuary, or the nervous lady of fafhion, to hold out fora couple of years longer; efpecially when he has to countera&t or overcome inceflant irregularities and de bilitating habits, which his patients will not abandon. How many phyficians, by their fituation, are obliged to acquire experience in this great art, and yet are blamed becaufe the artificial life which they procure to their exhaufted - patients, fora number of years, comes at length to an end. § 22. . That we may be better able to comprehend the full value of the art of preferving feeble life, 1 fhall here ay take](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088378_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
