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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    has been particularly successful; for where the writers have furnished us anything like definite, or numerical results, it does not appear that the mortality was less in their hands than it is among those who pursue a more expectant practice. The post mortuary appearances, which in many diseases furnish useful lessons for prac- tice, are in scarlet fever extremely various and uncertain ; and sometimes no morbid changes, sufficient to account for death, can be discovered in any of the vital organs, or great cavities. .[Note E.] Small Pox is another example of the class of .affections under consideration, its approach and • disappearance being irrespective of medical practice. It may, at first view, appear, that inoculation has placed artificial limits on this disease. But it must be recollected, that inocu- lated small pox is itself only a milder variety of the same disease, having its own customary limits of extent and duration, which are fixed, quite as much as those of the distinct and con- fluent forms of the natural disease. Erysipelas is an eruptive fever, having strong analogies with those which have been detailed.