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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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.

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    Should any one wish to satisfy himself of the truth of this, he needs only look over the cata- logues of diseases, furnished by writers on methodi- col nosology; when, (provided he confine him- self, as, of course, he ought to do, to primary or idiopathic affections,—rejecting such as are merely symptoms,—) he will probably, be sur- prised to find how few there are that do not come within the scope of the general proposition an- nounced above. In proof of this, I may state, that of the hundred and fifty genera enumerated in Dr. Cullen's Sy- nopsis, one half, at least, are either symptoms only, or else mere varieties, (as naturalists would term them,) and therefore not properly admitted as examples of primary or idiopathic disease; while, of the remainder, the far larger portion will be found to consist in inflammation, though often disguised by unmeaning or inappropriate de- signations. If, for example, we look to hemorrhage — an