Health and disease / by Charles F. Taylor.

  • Charles Fayette Taylor
Date:
1861
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Credit: Health and disease / by Charles F. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Do we add anything to it, or take anything from it that is not necessary to the one in health? Xo. We seek for nothing new, but we simply alter the conditions under which its phy¬ siological life was exhibited. Using the same kinds of vital stimuli, the light, and heat, and moisture, &c., they are so arranged that the physiological manifestations produced there¬ by result in health instead of disease. Bemove the influences of the mountain location—that is, transplant the acorn or the young oak to the fertile valley and the disease is cured. The husbandman is the scientific physician, for his constant study and aim is to surround all physiological activities, ani¬ mal or vegetable, with such conditions as must favor complete development or health. 'Using always the same materials, he seeks by endless modification of their relations to insure the eompletest physiological harmony. Health and disease, then, are not positive but relative terms. The line that separates them is wholly imaginary; we cannot tell where the one begins or the other ends. We only know the results of imperfect or improper physiological action; but that action is still physiological. Such being the relations of health and disease, any practices that proceed essentially as though disease were a separate and independent quality which is to be charmed away by a witch’s broth made from “Eye of newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat and tongue of dog, &c.f7 is certainly very far behind the light of modern science. Let us pay a little more attention to special hygiene, seek¬ ing for those conditions under which physiological manifes¬ tation take place most perfectly under varying circumstances, and we shall be surprised to find how little else there is to do. Article XXX.—Inhalations of Iodine and Bromine in Croup. By E. H. Drake, M. D., of Detroit, Mich. Having used the above medicines in the treatment of croup for the last two years, with a far more decided and uniform success than I ever experienced in the use of any other reme-
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