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
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    to the fact, that general weakness is often merely the consequence of active local disease, and likely to be aggravated, rather than relieved, by such treatment. Among the advantages that may be expected to follow the admission of the general principle here contended for, that of greater simplicity in respect to practice is one of no trifling importance. We shall no longer be prescribing for names, but for things. We shall not find it necessary to ex- hibit a different remedy in every different disease that comes before us, merely because it goes by a different appellation. The treatment of inflam- mation altogether, we shall find, is reducible to a few leading principles, with corresponding indi- cations of cure, which may all be fulfilled by few and simple means, requiring only to be pro- perly adjusted to the peculiar circumstances pre- sent. I shall now proceed to notice briefly a few, and but a few, of the various and discordant opinions