The reformed practice of medicine : as taught at the reformed medical colleges in the city of New York, at Worthington, Ohio, and all the reformed schools in the United States : containing all the practice of Dr. Beach of New York, of the celebrated Dr. Bone of New Jersey, and other celebrated botanic practitioners / by professors and members of the reformed medical colleges in New York and Worthington, Ohio.

Date:
1831
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Credit: The reformed practice of medicine : as taught at the reformed medical colleges in the city of New York, at Worthington, Ohio, and all the reformed schools in the United States : containing all the practice of Dr. Beach of New York, of the celebrated Dr. Bone of New Jersey, and other celebrated botanic practitioners / by professors and members of the reformed medical colleges in New York and Worthington, Ohio. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    terbalances suppressed pulmonary transpiration of the lungs. Heat is tlie natural stimulus of the body, without which the vital functions cannot be exercised. The say- ing ''I have taken cold is very common, but no one complains I have taken heat.'J It is known by all,that heat expands all bodies, and that cold, or the abstraction of heat, contracts all bodies, to a greater or less degree. The matter of the living system is not exempt from these laws. By the operation of an increased degree of heat, all its tissues are expanded ; on the contrary cold con- tracts and condenses them all, by bringing their particles into closer contact with each oilier. The extreme vessels are so situated as to feel very sen- sibly tho effects of heat and cold. The skin is a tissue, so extremely vascular, that the most circumscribed parts cannot be pierced without effusion of blood. Consider it3 great expansion, and surface it covers, and the vast quantity of this fluid it must contain, and the necessity of a maintainance of its functions to secure the health of the system ; consequently, wl^en it is made to recede from the surface and extremities, which is the effect of cold, and if too long continued, so rigidly contracts the vessel, that, they refuse receiving the fluid sent to them ; it is poured upon organs deep seated, engorges their ves- sel?, deranges their functions, creates congestions, effu- sions,inflammation, and by re-action, fever. If any point or deep seated organ is so unfortunate as to be predisposed to disease, by vascular relaxation, or enfeebled vital pow- er, it speedily becomes a prey to its ungenerous ravages. Such frequently is the state of the lungs, brain and liver, inducing pleurisy, disordered respiration, pneumonia and consumption, cerebral congestion, hemorrages, hydro- cephalus, and inflammation, hepatitis, also gastritis, cholic, dysentery, cholera morbus. «fec. &c. In fact to sum tho matter up, cold is one of the most prolific causes of the diseases incident to tho human system. It invariably <]»• generates nervous energy and tends to produce a gener- al torpor; whereas heat on the contrary not only stimu- lates the nerve?, but augments their vital sensibility. By what has been said the necessity of promoting pempira-