Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters.

  • Thomas, John.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    J 2 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS and wonderfully formed machine, harmonized by its great Author so as to support and preserve for a time, that moral and physical phenomenon, Man. In the study of Medicine, this part is sub- divided into two more; the first. Anatomy, or the science of organization, — second Physiology, or the economy of living or- ganizeo bodies. Many truly respectable authors consider the perfective part of Physiology as the ex- clusive province of the young Physician, and with reason, for, in the first place, he will have it in his power to bestow a larger por- tion, of time on its cultivation, and, in the second, having the science of organization as well as the accessary moral and physical sciences more recently impressed on his mind, he can with facility make them con- tribute to his discoveries, by employing their aid in his experiments. A profound knowledge of the economy and harmony of the human functions, of the organic and animal sensibility, of the gene-