Author : Lionel S. Beale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1330842731
On Slight Ailments, and on Treating Disease (Classic Reprint) by Lionel S. Beale Pdf
Excerpt from On Slight Ailments, and on Treating Disease Each one of us has, no doubt, suffered at times from slight derangements of the health - derangements which are not dependent upon or likely to determine structural change in any tissue or organ of the body, but due rather to temporary disturbance - to an alteration in the ordinary activity of tissues and organs, which soon may be succeeded by a return to the healthy state. In many instances the derangement is, in fact, an alteration in the rate at which normal phenomena are performed. Perhaps, in consequence of changes in the blood itself or in the tissues outside the vessels, the blood may flow too slowly or too quickly through the capillaries. These tubes often become unduly distended or relaxed, and disturbed action in the adjacent nerve-fibres being thereby occasioned, pain or discomfort is experienced. Among civilised nations a perfectly healthy individual seems to be the exception rather than the rule. I do not remember having seen more than two or three men in the course of my life who had never experienced any form of illness and did not know what it was to feel out of sorts. It is indeed very rarely one meets with a person who has reached the age of thirty who will not admit that at various times he has suffered from many different, though slight, derangements of health. We are indeed often told by those whose prospects of longevity are nevertheless good, that they have scarcely passed a week without the occurrence of some very decided departure from the perfectly healthy state. 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.