Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reckons as tne principal caufes of derangement, and this effed, he held, was brought about by an alter- ation of the humours of the body. In difeafe, nature, which is the vis medicatrix natura of more modern times flill ads and endeavours to reduce the altered humours to their original date, by concod- ing the morbid part, and preparing it for expulfion, which forms the crifis of a complaint. The ftudent Ihould be particularly attentive to this dodrine of concodion, and depuration of the humours, for upon this hinges that great fyflem of the humoural pathology, that was formed by this illuftrious antient, and has continued i'o many centuries in full vigour, and is to this day prevalent in many countries. AH the writers that have appeared in veterinary medi- cine, have till the prefent time, confidered difeafes as arifing from in affedion of the fluids of the body, by which ideas their pradice has been guided, and hence been inert, and without decifion. Hippo- crates divided difeafes into epidemic, or thofe rag- ing in any place affeding numbers at the fame time. Endemic, or thofe which appear to be peculiar to, and the relhlt of fome particular fituation : andJpo- radio, or all the general complaints that are not influenced by the two former diviflons. From the contraded Rate of knowledge at that period, and from the little acquaintance with chemiftry, fimplcs were moftly in ulc, aided by vomiting and blood letting; and the general lyftem of application was that all difeafes are cured by their oppofites. 5 The