Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore.

  • Moore, George, 1803-1880.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vital disturbance which it excited in the blood and the nerves. The disordered action set up by the poison in the vital functions, has to be rectified as well as the poison removed; but it is manifest that this can be effected only by a power resident in the organs disordered, and these cannot be assisted but by attention to the particular and general require- ments of the system. Concerning these requirements no one can so well judge as he who has experience of disease in its varied forms, a good knowledge of physiology, and a good share of common sense, and a disposition calmly to exercise his faculties. The action of medicines, as well as of disease is, for the most part, expended on the blood. We have seen that the elements of life and function, the moving force, as well as the repairing faculty of the ma- chinery, reside in the blood ; and the blood's health mainly depends on the materials introduced into it, since, according to the fitness of its contents for the purposes of life, all the functions are either stimu- lated or depressed. There can be no need, there- fore, of farther argument, to prove the propriety of regarding the condition of the blood in the treat- ment of disease, whether by diet or by medicines. Food, drink, and drugs, influence the blood almost as much as the lancet would do, and we may as readily be destroyed by mismanagement of the one as the other. Where the patient is strong, and the functions of the stomach active, great liberties may be taken with the blood, but where disease has a chronic hold, or much power, he is the best practi- tioner who best husbands the vital fluid and deals