Medical reform : a treatise on man's physical being and disorders, embracing an outline of a theory of human life, and a theory of disease--its nature, cause, and remedy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Medical reform : a treatise on man's physical being and disorders, embracing an outline of a theory of human life, and a theory of disease--its nature, cause, and remedy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Second Class of Proximate Occasions of Disease. CASES. I. Where the general issues or disbursments con- tinuing unchanged, a different disposition of the pow- er is made among the organs to which it is appropria- ted; more power being distributed to one organ, to aid it in an emergency, which leaves less for another, and thus occasions a defection in its action. II. Where the circumstances of the cases are changed; by which more power than usual, and more than the supply, is required to sustain the ordinary operations of life at their common standard; which occasions a general faltering of action. III. Where local disturbance is produced by the un- equal action of disturbing causes upon some portion of the system. IV. Where some parts are thrown into derange- ment because they happen to be, at the time of the change of circumstances, in a feeble state, and nearer the point of complaining than other portions of the system. Examples will be given under each of these minor heads. Third Class of Immediate Reasons why Vital Ac- tion DEVIATES FROM ITS NATURAL STATE, OR HIGHEST STANDARD OF HEALTHY ACTION. An enforcement of the law of limitation; or shut- ing off of power from the cardinal functions, for re- pairing or replenishing purposes or both, or from final exhaustion of the living principle. Of each of the specific proximate occasions of dis- ease there are many varieties. FIRST DIVISION. Varieties of this class of specific occasions of dis-