An outline or synopsis of the new medical doctrines contained in Knapp's Researches on primary pathology and the origin and laws of epidemics / drawn up by the author.

  • Knapp, M. L. (Moses L.), 1799-1879.
Date:
1858
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Credit: An outline or synopsis of the new medical doctrines contained in Knapp's Researches on primary pathology and the origin and laws of epidemics / drawn up by the author. 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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    3DBCBMBEH 1830. Art. I.—-An Outline or Synopsis of the New Medical Doctrines contained in “Knapp's Researches on Primary Pathology and the Origin and Laws of EpidemicsDrawn up by the Author. Proposition I.—That the idiopathic constitutional dyscrasia, known to be produced by defect of nutrition, described though not named by Hippocrates, but in modern times de- nominated I he scorbutic diathesis, and which was declared by very many of the old authors or observers to be a fruitful source of all diseases, and which to this day is regarded as a very common predisposing cause, and not urifrequently as underlying and gravely complicating many different diseases, does, in fact, underlie, and is the source or origin, the beginning or initial pathology of all diseases, so-called, epidemic, en- demic and sporadic; that this is the primitive dyscrasia in all cases of spontaneous disease, as well as the resultant condition from injuries, and therefore, properly speaking, is primary pathology ; that the occurrence of this dyscrasia from defects of nutrition, is a physiological law, fixed and unerring, and therefore to be regarded as a truth-principle in pathology, of as universal application in practical medi- cine as gravitation is in the Newtonian physics; and that the unfolding of this law or central truth in pathology, is 56