Remarks on the unity of the body : as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / by George Macilwain.

  • Macilwain, George, 1797-1882.
Date:
1836
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    it explains the uses of facts so accumulated, in a manner most easy and most consonant with reason ; and most readily confers on us the power of applying them with promp- titude, either to the preservation of health, to the correction of disease, or to its sus- pension, or amelioration, where correction is beyond our power. To the surgeon, the labours of John Hunter owe their chief value to the force ■ with which they inculcate this principle of study; nor can the investigations of Mr. Abernethy, nor the light which his genius threw on those of Mr. Hunter, be remem- bered with a more just gratitude, than when viewed as contributing so largely as they unquestionably did, to establish such views of the animal ceconomy. On a former occasion, I endeavoured, in correcting some misapprehensions which exist with regard to the opinions of Mr. Abernethy, to en- force this connexion of all the parts of the body with each other, by such illustrations as were afforded by a cursory considera- tion of the Digestive Organs* ; and also to * See the concluding- discourse of the volume.