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

  • Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Nature in disease : illustrated in various discourses and essays : to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects / by Jacob Bigelow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinuoiis time, and mostly a definite seat; 2d, The paroxysmal; in which the disease, having apparently disappeared, returns at its own periods; and 3d. The metastatic; in which the disease undergoes metastasis or spontaneous change of place. In the present state of our knowledge, we have no didiculty in finding examples of each of these subdivisions. There are also other examples, in which the disease, although capable of being in part influenced by medical treatment, still retains a portion of its original intractability, and has strong relations to the class in question. As a mode of directing our inquiries toward these diseases, we may suspect those complaints to be self-limited, in which it is observed that the unwary, and the sceptical, who neglect to resort to remedies, recover their health without them. We may also suspect diseases to be of this character, when we find opposite modes of treatment recommended, and their success vouched for, by practitioners of authority and veracity. We may moreover attach *the same suspicion to cases, in which the supposed cure takes place under chance applications, or incon-