On animal alkaloids : the ptomaines, leucomaines, and extractives in their pathological relations ... / by Sir William Aitken.

  • William Aitken
Date:
1887
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Credit: On animal alkaloids : the ptomaines, leucomaines, and extractives in their pathological relations ... / by Sir William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    the final cause of any disease. There is no disease I know of which acknowledges a single cause. It ought rather to be our business to find out the many and ever varying factors or conditions which, as antecedents, combine to produce disease ; and while we must acknowledge the influence of many physical agents in aiding and abetting these factors, we must mainly look to the physiological agencies within our own bodies during life as competent to bring about many forms of disease. WILLIAM AITKEN. Army Medical School, Netley.
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