Proofs, in Glasgow, of the efficacy of Morison's universal medicines, in curing all diseases : second edition, containing a small exposé of the Hygeian theory of disease : dedicated to the British College of Health, London / by C.W. Moat.

  • Moat, Crofton William.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Proofs, in Glasgow, of the efficacy of Morison's universal medicines, in curing all diseases : second edition, containing a small exposé of the Hygeian theory of disease : dedicated to the British College of Health, London / by C.W. Moat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    elusion, that in spite of Burking, and the sacrifice of lives in the hospitals, where death is more valuable than life, the medical world has been retrogading in useful knowledge ever since the first introduction of Anatomy, until at last they have become barbarously prejudiced and ignorant. It is no argument to the contrary, that men of great ability have lent their powerful aid to the study. They have been brought up in error, and it is known to be almost out of the power of man, in after life, to disencumber himself of juvenile prejudices. Were this not the case, would not all clever men come to the same conclusions in the political, religious, and moral worlds? whereas the history of human na- ture shoMrs that the wrar of opinions has always preceded that of the sword. This is a digression, but may perhaps serve as an exemplifying prelude to the statement, of the fact, that a man of strong mind, without an anatomical education, but who in early life had imbibed part of the prejudices of the day, did; after thir- ty-five years of extreme suffering, and between the fiftieth and sixtieth year of his age, throw off the shackles of cramped reason, commence the study of Nature and Nature’s Laws, without presuming to break that barrier to his researches, evidently placed by the Great Power. The Divine blessing attended him, —the humble man was exalted,—whereas the presuming have been coniounded by a conglomeration of ideas and sophisms. Mr. Morison, in two years, became a perfectly healthy man ; and millions have since participated in the benefits of the simple mode of treatment pointed out by Nature for the cure of diseases, but overlooked and neglected in the fallacious hope that man, by his puny abilities, would be able to do that scientifically, which Nature shows might be done with simplicity. What is life? This is evidently never to be answered by mortal man. How do we live ? By the chemical power derived from the blood, which in the nature of secretion mixes with our food, and extracts that part necessary for its replenish- ment, which is absorbed by means of agents, supplied from itself, and with which it nourishes every part of the animal frame. Thus the sole agent of life is blood, which being in- creased by the power of absorption, must likewise have a power of excretion, which function must evidently be performed jointly by the elementary canal and urinary passages. How its great power of nourishing the frame is exercised has been one great object in the study of Anatomy for two thousand years. Nothing to the point has been discovered, andas it is unnecessary for the well-being of man, nothing ever will be. The excrement that passes from the blood assists in the removal of that refuse of our food which is not adapted to the nourisment of the frame. We now come to the cause of disease : while it is borne in mind that, part of our blood decays daily, it must likewise be remem-