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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    siderable remedies; as in the empirical modes of practice on the one hand, and the minute doses of the homoeopathic method on the other. Lastly, we may apprehend that cases are fatally self-limited,* when enlightened physicians die themselves of the diseases which they had la- bored to illustrate,—- as in the case of Corvisart, Laennec, Armstrong, and others. [Note D.] In proceeding to enumerate more precisely some of the diseases which appear to me to be self-limited in their character, I approach the subject with diffidence. I am aware that the works of medical writers, and especially of medical compilers, teem with remedies and modes of treatment for all diseases ; and that in the morbid affections of which we speak, remedies are often urged with zeal and con- fidence, even though sometimes of an opposite character. Moreover, in many places, at the present day, a charm is popularly attached to what is called an active, bold, or heroic prac- * In the following article on the Treatment of Disease, it has been found convenient to divide diseases into the curable, the self-limited, and the incurable. In a general sense, however, the last term falls within the second.