A treatise on irritation of the spinal nerves as the source of nervousness, indigestion, functional and organical derangements of the principal organs of the body, and on the modifying influence of temperament and habits of man over diseases ... and on the therapeutic use of water / by J. Evans Raidore.

Date:
1842
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Credit: A treatise on irritation of the spinal nerves as the source of nervousness, indigestion, functional and organical derangements of the principal organs of the body, and on the modifying influence of temperament and habits of man over diseases ... and on the therapeutic use of water / by J. Evans Raidore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    among authors who have attempted the elucidation of Nervous Affections, and found them too in- tricate to accomplish. If I have succeeded in pointing out to my professional brethren a more certain and speedy mode than has hitherto been adopted to alleviate the physical and moral sufferings of the Ner- vously afflicted and other patients, my hopes and wishes will be amply rewarded. Be the result what it may, I trust that the facts and views I have noticed will aid and assist some other more suc- cessful aspirant, in the same manner as I have been assisted from the accumulated mass of writings of previous authors, who have ascertained and pointed out certain principles, which command general assent. The knowledge, however, of medicine may be admitted, up to the present time, to consist chiefly, and almost entirely, of a collection of individual observations, upon cases systematically arranged,