An inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions, usually denominated constitutional irritation / by Benjamin Travers.

Date:
1826
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Credit: An inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions, usually denominated constitutional irritation / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    governed; and from the comprehensive view thus obtained to derive, if possible, some permanent pathological characters, which might serve as a guide to more cor- rect notions of its nature, and more scientific principles for its treatment. I wish 1 could congratulate myself on having satisfactorily accomplished my de- sign. It is only for the persevering deter- mination with which I have pursued it that I feel ehtitled to any credit; but I must be allowed to add, that they alone who have directed their attention to it can appreciate the difficulties with which the subject is surrounded. Its extensiveness and almost inaccessible intricacy might well discourage persons more competent than myself to the task. The undertaking was formidable on another account. Fatal cases, which form its principal studies, are for the most part kept in shadow in the works of modern