Introductory lectures, exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Introductory lectures, exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    center of sympathies, a term, which such observations, if correct, would render par- ticularly apt and expressive. > The full importance of this subject, could not, I, think, have been discovered by the most acute physiological observation. It has been, however, manifested by the results of medical practice, which shew that if the disor- dered feelings and functions of the digestive organs be removed, the greatest degrees of nervous disorder, will sometimes suddenly cease; at others, will be greatly mitigated, and gradually subside ; clearly proving, that in such cases, the one derangement ith e cause of the other. To this subject, I particularly claimed your attention, because, it seems to me perfectly demonstrable, that the continued and aggravating irritation which the brain and abdominal viscera, when disordered;^