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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    A TREATISE, The objects of the present Treatise are to be attained by directing the attention to those slight beginnings of the more serious diseases, which, in the business of life, are often overlooked, or confounded with states really trivial; by tracing the steps by which they assume a formidable appearance, and pointing out the means of arresting their progress. Disordered structure is preceded by disordered function, and great disorder of function is often for a long time preceded by slighter degrees of it; and we almost always find, that when the more severe af- fection occurs, its obstinacy is proportioned to the length of time it has been preceded by the slighter symptoms, by which the part is weakened before the disease is esta- blished, and in the same degree the ten- dency to change of structure increased.