Douglas Stanley
Published: 2018-08-10
Total Pages: 386
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Excerpt from The Birmingham Medical Review, 1905, Vol. 57: A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences This, then, is to be aimed at - a healthy nervous system, which will, embrace in its consequences due sensibility, motive power, nutritive and reparative power - conditions necessary to resist and overcome the morbid influence arising from the presence of tuberculous matter. Here is, then, he adds in a summary passage, first, nervous power altered, weakened or exhausted; then the destruction Of the remain ing tissues constituting the main substance Of the organ. To preserve the latter, the integrity and strength Of the former must be maintained; and upon the means necessary for that purpose the whole question turns. 1 The disease being a neuropathic necrosis, the treatment is a neurotonic oitalisa tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.