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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1777. Excerpt: ... MPT HOD qw CURE i J N / CHRONIC WEAKNESS. SECTION IV. HAVING considered the symptoms, causes, distinction, and prognostic of chronic weakness, we come now to the Method Of Cure. This constitutes the most important part of the subject, and therefore ought to be discussed with great accuracy and attention. Having had frequent opportunities of treating this disease, I shall endeavor to give in detail that method of cure, which has been found by experience to be successful. The indications of cure which we shall lay down are three. The The first is to avoid the occasional causes. The second, to obviate particular symptoms that aggravate the complaint. And, The third, to restore the tone and vigor of the system. The rational practitioner will necessarily have in view those three curative indications. In delivering the method of treatment, we shall endeavor without repetition to follow a regular order, as far as is consistent with the nature of the subject. The indications above-mentioned, although they are as few and simple as possible, will, it is hoped, be found sufficiently extensive. INDICATION I. The occasional causes of the disease are to be cautiously avoided. The observance of this rule is of the utmost importance to the successful treatment of the complaint. No remedies will be found efficacious while the causes, which first brought on the indisposition, continue to act. We shall therefore take notice of some of the principal occasional causes; but after after the remarks which we have already made on that subject in a preceding part of! the essay , it will be needless to enlarge fully on this indication. We have said that acute and chronic diseases are often causes of chronic weakness.--With regard to the prevention of fevers and inflammations, we ou...
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