Excerpt from A Student's Notes of a Course of Lectures on the Practice of Medicine<br/><br/>Again, we have local and general Disease, but we must again use these terms guardedly, as we can't call pneumonia local, although it has local lesion. Acute and Chronic Disease. Bv Acute is not meant a dis ease in which the symptoms intensify, but a disease of short duration, while Chronic disease is one which has lasted for a long time, and there may or may not be an acute symp tom, but acute has rather to do with duration.
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