An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen ...Blackwood, 1859 |
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... state of the economy from that of Sthenia or Asthenia , under the name of Irritation , exists , 409 , 401 . 6. Whether a disease can undergo a change in respect of its Diathesis , from Sthenia to Asthenia , or xiv CONTENTS .
... state of the economy from that of Sthenia or Asthenia , under the name of Irritation , exists , 409 , 401 . 6. Whether a disease can undergo a change in respect of its Diathesis , from Sthenia to Asthenia , or xiv CONTENTS .
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... irritation in the system ; and second , those which give evidence of a weaker reaction . " This distinction , " says he , " is the same with that of fevers into Inflammatory and Nervous , the distinction at present most generally ...
... irritation in the system ; and second , those which give evidence of a weaker reaction . " This distinction , " says he , " is the same with that of fevers into Inflammatory and Nervous , the distinction at present most generally ...
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... irritation in the system . But whilst he thought that Synocha and Typhus , as representing re- spectively the predominance of inflammatory irritation and weaker reaction , might be considered as the funda- mental differences of ...
... irritation in the system . But whilst he thought that Synocha and Typhus , as representing re- spectively the predominance of inflammatory irritation and weaker reaction , might be considered as the funda- mental differences of ...
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... irritation and debility , par- ticularly as the irritation occurs in the brain . " ( Works , vol . i . p . 589. ) The attempt which Dr Cullen made to ascertain , or rather to promote , the inquiry into the Proximate Cause of Fever , or ...
... irritation and debility , par- ticularly as the irritation occurs in the brain . " ( Works , vol . i . p . 589. ) The attempt which Dr Cullen made to ascertain , or rather to promote , the inquiry into the Proximate Cause of Fever , or ...
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... irritation to the heart and arteries , and thus gives rise to the phenomena of the hot stage , viz . heat , redness , and turgescence ; the spasm , however , still subsisting in it , as is proved by the continued dryness of the sur ...
... irritation to the heart and arteries , and thus gives rise to the phenomena of the hot stage , viz . heat , redness , and turgescence ; the spasm , however , still subsisting in it , as is proved by the continued dryness of the sur ...
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Page 241 - And so I thought when I writ it, and can yet conceive no other way of their operation. But I am since convinced by the judicious Mr. Newton's incomparable book, that it is too bold a presumption to limit God's power, in this point, by my narrow conceptions. The gravitation of matter towards matter, by ways...
Page 339 - As a remedy against the great excitement of the organs of voluntary motion, the labour of draft cattle should be imposed upon him, and assiduously continued. The diet should be the poorest possible, and his drink only water. In water, as cold as possible, the patient should be immersed, and kept under it, covered all over, for a long time, till he is near killed!