The antidotal treatment of disease / by John Parkin.

  • Parkin, John, 1801-1886.
Date:
1878
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    work is still a Text book for all Pathologists. He attempted to ascertain, by means of pathological anatomy, not only the seat but the cause of diseases; while the facts adduced by him had the effect of localising many diseases, previously considered to be due to general causes—such as Paralysis and Asthma. Instead of attributing disease to the state of the humours; to derangement of the Archseus; to mechanical causes or to chemical agents, it was referred to the solids—to inflammation, and to changes in the different tissues and organs. This theory was not only applied to the generality of chronic complaints, in which the above pathological conditions were the most apparent; but it was also adopted by certain writers, in order to account for the production of fever, which, up to this time, had been considered essential, or idiopathic. E-sederer and Wagler of Gottingen and Sarcom of Naples, in 1761, drew attention to the pathological condition of the digestive tube, in the fevers that prevailed at that time; they concluded, that these changes, and the inflammation that preceded them, were the cause, not the effects of the disease. These conclu- sions laid the foundation of a modern theory of disease—that of M. Broussais—which will be pre- sently considered. Although several writers had inferred, contrary to the opinion then generally entertained, that the irritability of the muscular fibre was not independent