Origin, purpose, and destiny of man, or, Philosophy of the three ethers / by William Thornton.

  • Thornton, William, 1846-
Date:
1891
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Credit: Origin, purpose, and destiny of man, or, Philosophy of the three ethers / by William Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    evident by a desire of some pathologists and chemists to discover a prophylactic to tuber- culosis ; the reason can be made quite clear, why success can never be obtained by the means which they are trying to adopt. In the first place, the premature decrepitude of the cells of the lungs is the cause of precipi- tating the tubercular diathesis, if this is not the diathesis itself, — a disorganizing process which permits of bacterial or germ attack; consequently nothing in the form of inocu- lation produced by foreign matter can pos- sibly be of any avail whatever; but a treat- ment directed internally, to elevate the organization of the lung tissue and stop the process of disorganization going on in the lung cells, is the only possible ground for success. The argument against this process by the opposition side would be that the germ, after inoculation, has been known to start up a grave pathological condition in the particular tissue in which it manifests its presence; this