The water-cure in chronic diseases : an exposition of the causes, progress, and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lungs, nerves, limbs, and skin; and of their treatment by water, and other hygenic means / Illustrated with an engraved view of the herbes of the lungs, heart, stomach and bowels, by James Manby Gully, M.D.

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Credit: The water-cure in chronic diseases : an exposition of the causes, progress, and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lungs, nerves, limbs, and skin; and of their treatment by water, and other hygenic means / Illustrated with an engraved view of the herbes of the lungs, heart, stomach and bowels, by James Manby Gully, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tsymptoms are intense, pressing in character, and if Nature, either with or without the aid of Art, does not soon bring relief, extin- guishes the individual. The relief and tlie escape f~om death are brought about either by transfer of the morbid action from the original seat of disorder to some less important part, and the elimination of some secretions therefrom,—an action to which the term crisis has for three tliou- sand years been applied ;* or, no such transfer occurring, the acute state of disease in the affected part passes into the chronic state,—chronic disease is established. Preliminary, therefore, to fixing what constitutes chronic dis- order, it is necessary that we should obtain some precise idea of what constitutes the acute form. I shall next proceed to inquire into the minute changes of organs which induce the phenomena of chronic disease. All the circumstances of chronic disease, generally, will then be considered. Applications of the general doctri le and circumstances will then be made to individual dis- eases In the course of these inquiries, I shall take occasion to show /low acute disease is originated, and chronic disease main- tained and exasperated, by internal stimulation ] and finally, I shall show how the treatment of chronic disease by water, and other hygienic means, obviates this inconvenience, is more safe than any other plan of treatment, and comes in aid of the natural and only 'permanent process towards recovery. * It is^well to note this, as all the world has of late spoken of a crisis as a new prodigy : a mistake which some writers on the water-cure would seem to encourage, either from ignorance of the literature of medicine, or from some silly idea that the novelty may add to the eclat of the treatment they profess. Hippocrates was the first to use the term crisis as applied to a termina .'on of disease, a id he lived a.m. 3500.
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