A series of essays on inflammation and its varieties : tending to show, that most diseases either consist in inflammation, or are consequences of it, more or less remote / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1846
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A series of essays on inflammation and its varieties : tending to show, that most diseases either consist in inflammation, or are consequences of it, more or less remote / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    15/100
    disordered, action of the blood-vessels of the part, the constant tendency of which is, to produce dis- organization—om chief attention will naturally be directed to the obviating such a result; by the use of prompt, as well as active means, and that in proportion to the importance of the part af- ^ fected. Our treatment, on this view of the sub- ject, will be radical, rather than palliative. We shall be led to regard symptoms as only of se- condary importance, though not to be wholly over- looked or neglected. They will not, however, as at present is frequently the case, be the chief object of attention, so as, in fact, to constitute, probably, nine tenths of our daily practice; lead- ing, at all events, to the employment of super- fluous, if not injurious, means of cure. Of this, abundant examples might easily be ad- duced : as where opium, or other narcotics, is admi- nistered, with the view of easing pain, or procuring sleep; or, again, when wine and other stimulants are given for the purpose of supporting the strength,—as the phrase is,—without adverting