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The Unity Of Disease Analytically And Synthetically Proved - Softcover

Samuel Dickson

 
9780371903209: The Unity Of Disease Analytically And Synthetically Proved

Synopsis

The Unity Of Disease Analytically And Synthetically Proved: With Facts And Cases Subversive Of The Received Practice Of Physic by Samuel Dickson. This polemical medical treatise argues that all diseases share a single underlying principle—the unity of morbid action—demonstrated through cycles of health and disease, remission and fever, rather than a collection of isolated organ ailments. Dickson critiques humoral theories, the overreliance on morbid anatomy, and the routine use of bloodletting, purgatives, and other aggressive practices. Drawing on numerous clinical cases, from palsies and amaurosis to cardiac disorders and pulmonary consumption, he contends that symptoms reflect variations in a general constitutional state and that therapy should target temperature regulation and restorative remissions. He advocates a universal pharmacology—quinine, arsenic, hydrocyanic acid, bark, creosote, opium, and others—applied according to the patient’s constitution and the stage of disease. The book seeks to reform medical pedagogy and unify diverse diseases under a simple, living theory of health and cure.

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