Rheumatism, gout and neuralgia, as affecting the head and ear : with remarks on some forms of headache, in connextion with deafness / by William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1806-1876.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Rheumatism, gout and neuralgia, as affecting the head and ear : with remarks on some forms of headache, in connextion with deafness / by William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Here we can regulate the operation, because the changes produced can he seen. It is to this part and to that immediately beneath it, that the means called counter-agents (which have been enumerated previously), are applied. In their application, we must be guided by the circumstances of the particu- lar case; and, bearing in mind the principle that our object is to excite an action in a part of the surface, so as either to prevent a disease taking place, or to overcome it ivhen it has taken place in a more important part, the practitioner will be led to use means proportioned in power, and continued for the time necessary to effect the object sought. In many cases of long existing disease, the counteracting principle must be maintained for life. All the means already noticed as counteragents, produce their effects by diverting diseased action from the part affected to another; or, by keeping up diseased action in one part, they prevent its development in parts more important. The re- marks, therefore, which I have ventured to offer on these means, as connected with the removal of disease, or the prevention of its development, will, I trust, be found of the utmost importance.