Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H E t> A T I C ' D I S E A S E S. ' ^ llow miferable miift the life of that man be, who is continually harrafled by aches and pains, and whofe every moment of relief is purchafed by the repeated ufe of medicines ! Thefe are obfervations which ought to teach us the value of health, and make us exert ourfelves cautioufly to pre- ferve it. The folidS and fluids of the animal frame being fo relaxed and diflblved by the combined powers of heat, moifture, putrid effluvia, and irregularities of dif- ferent natures, that we cannot expert the various fecretions which are inceflantly going on forour fupport and prefervation to be compleated or falubrious j—confe- quently, fome latent principles of difeafe will take place, and may perhaps a long time lie dormant, before the patient is awakened to his danger by the more inve- terate fymptoms of it; aiid if he does not inftantly obtain medical affiftance, the event will be very fhort and fatal. Much therefore will depend on the due and moft ftri<ft obfervation of medical advice.