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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![§ 46. Single parts may contain‘ more or lefs of the vital principle, according to their nature and condition ; it may be partially annihilated, as in cafes of mutila- tiorl, or they may have organic defects. tre | § 47. By this greater or lefs accumulation of the vital principle, in fingle parts of the body, there arifes an UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION of it, which is called a difeafed ftate. Thofe parts of the body in which the vital principle is exclufively or particularly active, and in which it feems to concentrate itfelf more by a eveater accumulation, are worn out and weakened by its too great a¢tivity. This weaknefs of fingle parts fpreads at length, throughout the whole body; and effects a general debility, which becomes the caufe of death. § 48. DEFECTS IN THE ORGANIZATION ARE, 1. Natural. As in the cafe of men born without certain parts belonging to the whole, or with variations from the ufual ftructure. In this clafs may be placed innate mutilations, blindnefs, dumbnefs, &c. Defeéts in the organization through difeafe, the ‘cautes of which are either externa] or internal. To this clafs belong thofe changes which are occafioned in the organization by the deftructive hand of time, and the changes *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088378_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
