Nature in disease : illustrated in various discourses and essays : to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects / by Jacob Bigelow.

  • Jacob Bigelow
Date:
1854
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    are not limited, except by medical treatment. [Note C.] Sometimes, also, the cause being the same, the result will depend on the part, organ, or texture which is affected. Thus if we divide with a cutting instrument the cellular or muscular substance, we produce a self-limited disease, which, although it cannot by any art be healed within a certain number of days or weeks, yet in the end gets well spontaneously, by one process, if the lips are in contact, — and by another and slower process, if they are separa- ted.* But if, on the other hand, we divide a considerable artery, we have then an unlimited disease; and the hemorrhage, or the aneurism, which follows, does not get well, except through the interposition of art. The class of diseases under consideration, comprehends morbid affections, differing greatly from each other, in the time, place, and nature of their spontaneous developments ; so that they may admit of at least three? general subdivisions. These may be called, 1st. The simple; in which the disease observes a con- * la one case, the disease is a solution of continuity ; in the other, a solution of continuity and contact.