Heads of a course of lectures on pathology, therapeutics and materia medica : delivered in the Medical School of Guy's Hospital / by James Curry.

  • Curry, James, -1819.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Heads of a course of lectures on pathology, therapeutics and materia medica : delivered in the Medical School of Guy's Hospital / by James Curry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XIX. Of the Art of Observing ; —qualifications neces- sary to excel in it, and mode in which it should be cul- tivated. XX. Causes of Diseases divided into — a. Predis- posing ,—b. Occasional or Exciting,—and—c. Proximate. XXL Predisposing Causes:—Debility whether original or induced : — Inanition (IX) ; — Plethora (IX) ;—Excessive Irritability (V) ; —Torpor (V) : — Mal-conformation or particular structure of parts (X) ; — Peculiar constitution (XII), or hereditary tendency (XIII) : — Particular qualities or states of the blood (X) .—Preceding diseases.—Sex ( ) —Period of life (XIV). XXII. Occasional or Exciting Causes:—Temperature of climate or season Heat;—Cold -vicissitude;— examples of the diseases to which these respectively give rise.'—Modifications arising from moisture or dryness of the air joined with temperature. XXIII. Certain states of the air independantly of ther- mometric or hygrometric quality ;—shewn in the effects of certain winds :—the East wind in England ;—N. W. wind in America,—S. W.wind at St. Helena;—Simoom or Samiel wind of the desarts ;—Sirocco of Italy,—Posi- ttive healthful quality of some winds, —W. I. Hurri- cane,—Harmattan on the Coast of Guinea. XXIV. Peculiar changes in the quality of the atmos- IDhere, taking place occasionally, spreading over many :ountries in succession, and inducing general indispo- ition of the Catarrhal kind :—Epidemic Cold, or In- menza.—Account of some of the most remarkable epi- demics of this kind. XXV. Adventitious impregnations of the atmosphere B 2
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