A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip.

Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I shall indulge in no speculative doctrines, but wholly confine myself to facts which came under my own view, and the necessary inferences from them. I shall avoid the narration of cases which, however useful and proper under other cir- cumstances, would occupy too much space in a Treatise like the present; and shall only, occasionally and shortly, state certain cir- cumstances of individual cases, when they happen particularly to illustrate what I have occasion to say. As the chief objects of the following Trea- tise are, to call the attention to, and correct the first beginnings of, disease, its purposes would be very imperfectly answered were it not made intelligible to the general reader; I shall, therefore, as far as I can, without much circumlocution, avoid the use of tech- nical language. In the introduction to the