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.
Date:
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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    appearances discovered after death indicated the real nature of fever, and were not the effects of the treatment, the question at issue could be settled at once, and without any reference to treatment, by the morbid anatomist. But many of the sym¬ ptoms during life, and the morbid appearances after death, vary as the treatment varies, the most strenuous advocates of the antiphlogistic treat¬ ment finding most inflammation, while those op¬ posed to this system of treatment find, on the con¬ trary, great debility and very little inflammation. Thus, Dr. Southwood Smith, a great advocate of the antiphlogistic system, states, that “ the ac¬ count of the pathology of fever is the history of in¬ flammation, and the description of the individual changes that take place in the organs that con¬ stitute the febrile circle is an enumeration of the various products of inflammation/’ But those who treat fever on different principles find neither the severe symptoms during life, nor the appear¬ ances of inflammation after death described by Dr. Southwood Smith ; and they therefore reject, as erroneous, his views respecting the treatment and pathology of fever, and conclude that much of the fatality which takes place in his practice is the result of the severity of the treatment, and not of the incurable nature of the disease. It might be expected that Dr. Armstrong, Dr.