New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs : by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity, and their natural or electric remedies ; which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula, with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood, M.D.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1837
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Credit: New or electric symptoms of chronic diseases, or chronic tubercula of the organs and limbs : by which they may be easily and invariably distinguished by any person of common education and capacity, and their natural or electric remedies ; which, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences, including all the forms of scrofula, with cases affecting the different organs and limbs / by H.H. Sherwood, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. It will be observed by those who are acquainted with the classification of diseases, that I have added to the common or acknowledged cases of tubercula or scrofula, a number of diseases, that are not classed as such by nosologists,. or other medical writers, and the reason for doing so may be found in the uni- formity of the symptoms, and of the disorganizations presented by dissections, and in being uniformly cured by the same remedies. In the case of Mrs. J. P., in which the symptoms are given, the disease was active or passive in nearly all the organs and limbs, under thejiames of chlorosis, white swelling, king's evil, mercurial disease, chronic enlargement of the breast, dyspepsia, hypertro- phy of the heart and consumption, and the new or electric symptoms were the same, and pointed to the disease in those organs and limbs, and they, like a great variety of similar cases with the same symptoms, were all cured at the same time, with the same remedies, and demonstrate the correctness of this classification. I have also substituted the term tubercula from tuber, a knot, knob, or little swelling, which from their natural resemblance, is easily associated with this disease, for scrofula, a little pig, which has neither the avantage of any resem- blance toil, or of any easy or very unpleasant associations, and consequently as applied to this disease, unfit and inapplicable. It is a swelling of the knobs, knots or liule round organized bodies called, glands, with their vessels, nerves and connecting substance, of which tho organs limbs and othor structures are formed with hypertrophy or genoral swelling of the organs, limbs or other structures which constitute the disease. Even the thinnest membrane and the smallest vessels are constructed with them, as may be seen when they are tubeiculated, and as is proved by dissections. These bodies are the elementary organs of motion and secretion and excre- tion. And motion, secretion and excretion in these organs is produced by the motions and forces of electricity . The motions also of the Lungs, Heart and Pulse are these motions, as can be seen by comparing them, and are produced by these forces. These with many other positions assumed in the following pages, are new to the public and to the medical profession, and although some of them may appear obscure from the haste and brevity in which they were written and compiled, they will, nevertheless, be found to be true and immovable. Tubercula is>generally slow in its progress, very fatal, and is hereditary, and descends from parent to child, for many generations. Nature, however, sometimes cures it by change of seasons or climate. In describing the cases, I have been as brief as possible, and have purposely avoided giving the state of the pulse, and other unimportant symptoms not necessarily belonging to the disease, and have endeavored to preserve a plain and familiar style, and to avoid as much as possible unnecessary tech- nicalities. 0^7= In preparing the first edition, of which the above is the introduction, rare was taken to select such a variety of cases affecting the different organs and flimbs, as to give true ideas of the phenomena of the disease, and its uatural remedies,—and in publishing a second edition a few months after, this object appears so well attained as to require no alteration. Four new cases are, however, added—threo of which are very interesting to females, and such other improvements made aa could well be done in the limits prescribed to the work.