A treatise on the tonic system of treating affections of the stomach and brain: comprehending an account of the causes and nature of impairment of the constitution, indigestion, determination of blood to the head, impairment and morbid excitation of the brian, paralysis, apoplexy, and insanity / [Henry Searle].

  • Searle, Henry.
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1843
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Credit: A treatise on the tonic system of treating affections of the stomach and brain: comprehending an account of the causes and nature of impairment of the constitution, indigestion, determination of blood to the head, impairment and morbid excitation of the brian, paralysis, apoplexy, and insanity / [Henry Searle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    curable nature of the disease, or to the defective constitution of the patient. Several appeals to the Faculty have been already made by the Author, through the medium of the medical journals, on behalf of this proposed change in medical practice. Three of these appeals are reprinted as an Appendix to this work : one, <£ On the Influence of the Antiphlogistic System in the Treatment of Diseases;’5 the second, “ On the Nature of Inflammatory Fever;” and the third, “ On the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases.” It might be supposed, a priori, that whatever good effects might result from the tonic system of treating disorders in general, it would be perfectly inadmis¬ sible in regard to inflammatory diseases. So far, however, from this being the case, it will be found that the maintenance of the powers of the body protects it from falling into that weak and irritable condition which is so essential both to the produc¬ tion and continuance of high inflammatory action, and that, therefore, the tonic system is indicated in this class of diseases, as well as in those of a dif¬ ferent character. Daily and attentive observation of disease has convinced me of the accuracy of my opinions with regard to the dangerous tendency of the antiphlogistic system ; and I now venture to submit them to the public. My claim upon its attention is, that I have given each system a fair