The reformed botanic practice, and the nature and cause of disease clearly explained, and expressly arranged for the use of all classes.

Date:
1852
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Credit: The reformed botanic practice, and the nature and cause of disease clearly explained, and expressly arranged for the use of all classes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    restore in the body the vigour a,nd energy required to carry on all the secretions and excretions, and if any of them are particularly deficient, our express object must be to restore them. Now, of all modes of practice, none has ever been so well adapted to the indications of disease just pointed out as the Botanic practice, as it consists essentially in the eliminative process, that is, assisting the constitu- tion to eject from the body all the causes of disease; and that this is the proper way of curing disease is proved by the experience of thousands who have been perfectly restored to health and vigour, who were otherwise declared incurable by the advocates of the old system of poisoning, blistering, and bleeding to death. FEVER. Fever consists essentially in obstructed perspiration. There are many and various causes of this total pros- tration of the function of the skin, the principal of which is cold. Sudden or long-continued cold in- duces a torpid or inactive state of the capillary vessels of the skin. Also, sudden transition from heat to cold—that is, heat attended with irritability or excitement, which, by relaxing the fibre, and ex- citing inordinate functional action of the skin, renders it more susceptible to the paralyzing impressions of cold. Another source of this obstruction is poison- ous or infectious effiuvium, which prostrates the vital energy of the exhalants of the skin, thereby causing the capillary vessels to become choked up with per ■