Diathesis and ocular diseases / by A. Maitland Ramsay.

  • Andrew Maitland Ramsay
Date:
1909
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    DIATHESIS AND OCULAR DISEASES CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY A diathesis has been defined as a permanent condition of the body (hereditary or acquired) which renders it liable to certain special diseases or affections—in short, a bodily condition pre- disposing to a particular disease. Thus, if an individual possess a certain diathesis, he will naturally suffer from special manifestations of disease, and any illness which may attack him will be modified by his peculiar constitutional state. To this fact the older physicians attached great importance : they put special value on what they called knowing the constitution of the patient; and, within due limits, they were doubtless right, for there can be no question whatever that much is to be learnt from a full knowledge not only of
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