An address to medical and surgical pupils, on the studies and duties of their profession; to which is appended, a case of caesarean operation / by James Barlow.

  • Barlow, James.
Date:
1839
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Credit: An address to medical and surgical pupils, on the studies and duties of their profession; to which is appended, a case of caesarean operation / by James Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    admission of light, a blackened surface (nigrum pigmentum) to absorb the reflected light, a certain contrivance for preserving the distinctness of the image by adjusting the focus to the varying distance of the object, and many other curious arrangements, both in the internal and external apparatus of the eye and its functions. Such, then, are the sources from which the student may derive his knowledge of the con¬ ditions of the human bodv in health and disease ; which knowledge, however, is but the means to the end you have in view—-the preservation of health, the prevention and cure of disease. The prevention of disease requires a knowledge of etiology or science of disease, which has for its object the investigation of disordered function. But where are we to search for the causes of disease \ Manifestly, in either the organic struc¬ ture itself, or in the influence of external agents. Hence it has been well observed by the poet, that “ we are born dying.” We bring with us into life the seeds of decay, which, whatever may be the influence of external agents, must sooner or later terminate in corruption. But over such causes of decay or disease as are in accordance with the final purpose of organization, we have little or no control. We can at the utmost so temper the action of external agents on the human frame, that they shall not accelerate its onward progress to decay;