Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . cause of Consumption is impaired Inner-vation. Whatever produces or favors the dsposition of tu-bercles, interferes with the functions of the nervous system,and impairs Innervation. So numerous are these causes,that it is scarcely possible to mention the whole of them,although we may present some of the more prominent ones,and show in what way they influence the nervous a general rule, I would remark, that every influence,external or internal, acting directly or indirectly on thenervous system, so
Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . cause of Consumption is impaired Inner-vation. Whatever produces or favors the dsposition of tu-bercles, interferes with the functions of the nervous system,and impairs Innervation. So numerous are these causes,that it is scarcely possible to mention the whole of them,although we may present some of the more prominent ones,and show in what way they influence the nervous a general rule, I would remark, that every influence,external or internal, acting directly or indirectly on thenervous system, so as to depress it, favors the developmentof tubercles—either in the lungs or some other organ;much more so, if a pre-disposition to Consumption exists. Dress is a frequent cause of Consumption. The practiceof tight-lacing, the wearing of heavy skirts, and thin shoes,are the means of carrying thousands of the fairest and love-liest of the female sex to an untimely grave, through theaid of Deaths prime minister—Consumption. DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT. j55 FIGURE E. FIGURE 1.
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