Clinical Lectures on Various Important Diseases

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Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on Various Important Diseases: Being a Collection of the Clinical Lectures Delivered in the Medical Wards of Mercy Hospital ChicagoA further inquiry now arises, of great interest, but less easily answered, namely: What causes the well-marked de pression of all the functions just named? Is it some mor bific agent or fever poison acting primarily on the nervous centers, depressing nerve force, and through this in¿uencing the vascular and secretory functions? This was essentially the doctrine of Cullen, and of a majority of writers on prac tical medicine, from his day to the present time. A more modern, and somewhat more popular doctrine, at the present time, alleges that the supposed fever-poison acts primarily upon the constituents of the blood by a zymotic or septic in¿uence, and that all the important functional disturbances are consequent on the deteriorated condition of that ¿uid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.