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An essay on the nature, causes, and treatment, of water on the brain / [William Shearman].

  • Shearman, William, 1767-1861.
Date:
1825
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Credit: An essay on the nature, causes, and treatment, of water on the brain / [William Shearman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as when we call inflammation of the pleura, the proximate cause of pleurisy; inflamma- tion of the brain, that of phrenitis,* &c. No investigation has yet been able to detect. any simple and obvious state or al- teration in the system, upon which all the phenomena of any one disease invariably depend; the symptoms of most diseases arise successively, and are apparently each produced by the others preceding it. The first. evidence we have of an exciting cause having produced disease, is the appearance of the symptoms of disease themselves, and it is in vain to search after any intermediate state, which alone can constitute what, ac- cording to the strict definition of that term, is called the proximate cause. In every other sense, the proximate cause constitutes * See Temple, Clarke, and others.
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