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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    die annually, though hundreds of volumes have been written for their preservation. [Note H.] It may perhaps appear that the views which have now been taken of the power of medicine, in so large a class of diseases, arc gloomy and discouraging, and that an unworthy tribute is paid to the labors of those physicians, who have patiently studied, and ardently acted, for the benefit of humanity. Such views, however, are far from being the object of the present dis- course. Were it permitted by the compass of the subject under consideration, it would be a very grateful task to enumerate those maladies of the human frame, over which we have reason to believe that medicine has obtained decisive influence. To a medical audience, it is un- necessary to recall the instances of pain reliev- ed, spasms controlled, inflammations checked, [Note I], and diseased associations broken up, under limitable diseases, by the agency of the healing art. Were there no other trophy for the medical profession to boast, it is sufficient to know, that the diseases of small pox and syphi- lis alone would have entailed misery and exter- mination on a large portion of our species, had
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