 | Medicine - 1838 - 628 pages
...introduction to his classification of these diseases, illustrates from them the remark of Sytlenham that " a disease is no more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw off morbific matter, and thus recover the patient." He disclaims, indeed, the implicit adoption of a humoral... | |
 | Medicine - 1838 - 626 pages
...introduction to his classification of these diseases, illustrates from them the remark of Sydenham that " a disease is no more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw oil morbific matter, and thus recover the patient." He disclaims, indeed, the implicit adoption of... | |
 | Medicine - 1853 - 474 pages
...presence of these impurities, either to direct efforts for their expulsion, or to a course of elaborate action, so as to fit them for expulsion ; and that,...no more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw oft' the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient. This is the sum and substance of the humoral... | |
 | Frederick William Headland - 1853 - 390 pages
...than to make rash or violent attempts at a cure. He maintained that what we call a disease was in fact "no more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw...the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient."* He proposed, therefore, that our efforts should be directed to assist nature to procure the evacuation... | |
 | George Bacon Wood - 1858 - 916 pages
...mischief. Not only in the case of fevers, but of all other diseases, it was supposed that the blood becomes contaminated or depraved, either by the reception...and that, in the language of Sydenham, "a disease is DO more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw off the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient."... | |
 | Frederick William Headland - 1867 - 488 pages
...to make rash or violent attempts at a cure. He maintained that what we call a disease was in fact " no more than a vigorous effort of nature to throw...the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient."* He proposed, therefore, that our efforts should be directed to assist nature to procure the evacuation... | |
 | 1892 - 480 pages
...CHRONIC. In the opinion of Sydenham, a disease, however prejudicial its causes may be to the body, is no more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw off the morbific matter, and thus lead to the recovery of the sick. The causes of acute disease, according to him, are twofold. In one... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - Medicine - 1900 - 468 pages
...Chronic. In the opinion of Sydenham, a disease, however prejudicial its causes may be to the body, is no more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw off the morbific matter, and thus lead to the recovery of the sick. The causes of acute disease, according to him, are twofold. In one... | |
 | Nutrition - 1910 - 832 pages
...minor chorea is designated. At the beginning of his work on "Acute Diseases" he defines disease as a vigorous effort of nature to throw off the morbific matter and recover the patient. "Diseases arise," says he, "either from such particles of the air, as having a... | |
 | Thomas Sydenham, John Dixon Comrie - Medicine - 1922 - 178 pages
...DISEASES IN GENERAL. A DISEASE, in my opinion, how prejudicial soever its causes may be to the body, is no more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw...the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient. For as God has been pleased so to create mankind, that they should be fitted to receive various impressions... | |
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A disease, in my opinion, how prejudicial soever its causes may be to the body, is no more than a vigorous effort of Nature to throw off the morbific matter, and thus recover the patient. 
