A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896.
Date:
1853
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. 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.)

    9/240
    This volume presents an epitome of Medical Practice, based on the Unity of all disease, as characterized by lntermittency and Periodicity. The object of the authors, is, the recommendation of that practice in the different modifications of disease herein describ- ed, which they, in common with several hundred practitioners —in every section of the country—have found to be the most philosophical and the most successful. The ordinary text books, in their therapeutical repletion, enumerate such a multiplicity of remedies, as to render a judi- cious selection, almost impracticable by the young and inexpe- rienced practitioner, a fact which arises from a want of know, ledge, on the part of their authors, that all remedies act primarily upon the brain, and thence electrically, or magnetically, upon the totality of the whole system. The reader will be probably surprised to find that the anti- phlogistic treatment—to wit., copious venesection, purgation, and a regimen nearly approaching starvation—finds no favor in these pages. That heroic treatment has been by the old schools recommended for the prevention of derangement of structure,— a result more readily attainable by an attentive observation of Paroxysm and Remission. This work is mainly practical:—Many points, at first sight speculative and conjectural, could have been maintained by reasonings and sustained by results ; but lengthened arguments would have been out of place in a Compendium, and would, moreover, by enlarging the size, have added to the cost of the volume. Deeply interested in all they have herein described, and ar- dently devoted to Medical Science and its advancement, the authors trust that to the junior members of the profession, ami