A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long.

  • Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will see the practice in operation on my patients, and they will then be convinced that the same virus and deleterious fluid which appear in dif- ferent forms, and produce different effects ^ can be removed by the properties of one remedy, va- ried in its application, as the case may require. It is therefore fair to infer, that as one remedy removes the various ailments of the body, and these ailments can be reduced to the same dele- terious fluid and virus that produced them, there can be no other foundation for our hereditary ail- ments than the virus and deleterious jluid^. ' '' In the third Lecture at the College I have en- deavoured to show how dissimilar, or much diver- sified, diseases may result from the same general ^' causes.—Abernethy. ^ . . .. We are compelled to give up the doctrine of excitement, or stimulation, and adopt, in a sort of em- pirical or confused way, the conclusions of those men *' who talked about the humours of the body, or who *' conceived that in the blood and fluids was to be found the essence of disease, as well as the principle of hfe, and that curative agency is resolvable into a some- thing of change brought about in them. *' But that the humoral doctrines of medicine are *' themselves also falhble, may be proved by a variety *' of examples. Who shall say what is added to, or *' abstracted from, any of the body's fluids, when in a momentmere mental impulse shall so change the whole ''man, that from a healthy or sane, he plunges at once into a diseased or insane state ; his thoughts and his