On growth or health and diseases of youth / [A.-M. Bureaud-Riofrey].

  • Bureaud-Riofrey, A.-M. (Antoine-Martin), 1803-
Date:
1845
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Credit: On growth or health and diseases of youth / [A.-M. Bureaud-Riofrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 0 — that generally produce disturbance in the phenomenon of growth. It may justly be said that English physicians are most successful in the treatment of acute diseases, owing to their energy : but the irregularities of growth are rather like chronic diseases, in which every violent medication proves more fatal than useful. Much patience and knowledge are required in these cases; for diseases cannot be cured merely by the touch; medecine is an art and a science very com¬ plicated ; it demands an enlightened and elevated mind to follow this art and this science with success. The ignorant alone in or out of the profession can be sceptic, as to the real benefits of medecine : but the more medical science is elevated, the less is it likely to be understood or appreciated by the vulgar. A common error is to suppose a disease is pro¬ duced by one cause only. While experience shows that the same disease may depend on many causes and each cause gives to each disease a pe¬ culiar character; then a knowlege of the cause must lead to the knowledge of the treatment. In my Treatise on “ Physical Education, ” I considered growth in all its bearings; in my present work, I consider it in relation with that age in which female youth is susceptible of so many affections, which being mistaken, are ill treated and consequently fatal. The learned Quetelet of Bruxelles has proved by nu¬ merous statistical facts, that the period of woman-
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