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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    far towards lessening the frequency and violence of the recurrence, we may be justified in with- drawing gout from the place it would otherwise occupy. [Note F.] The diseases of mania and melancholy, asthma, when it depends on emphysema of the lungs, gravel in the kidneys, and the symptoms produced by ascarides in the rectum, [Note G], furnish other examples of maladies, which manifest themselves in unforeseen paroxysms. Cases, which bear the names of all the above diseases, are undoubtedly relieved, and some- times even removed by medicine; but it is equally true, that other cases are wholly in- tractable, both as to their recurrence, their duration, and their susceptibility of much change from medical treatment. And it will come to the recollection of many practitioners, that they have, in the course of their lives, believed themselves to have cured these dis- eases, when in fact they have only witnessed the spontaneous subsidence of a paroxysm. The last subdivision of our subject includes what may be called metastatic diseases. By this term I wish to express certain morbid
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