The Alkaline Permanganates, and Their Medicinal Uses |
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Page iv - ... 1. That the notion so long prevalent in the schools, that acute disease can be prevented or cured by means which depress and reduce vital and nervous power, is altogether fallacious. 2. That acute disease is not curable by the direct influence of any form of drug or any known remedial agent, excepting when it is capable of acting as an antidote, or of neutralizing a poison, on the presence of which in the system the disease may depend (materies morbi).
Page vi - Remedies, whether in the shape of drugs, which exercise a special physiological influence on the system, or in whatever form, are useful only so far as they may excite, assist, or promote these natural curative processes. " 4. That it should be the aim of the physician (after he has sedulously studied the clinical history of disease, and made himself master of its diagnosis) to inquire minutely into the intimate nature of these curative processes; their physiology, so to speak; to discover the best...
Page v - ... 3. That disease is cured by natural processes, to promote which, in their full vigour, vital power must be upheld. Remedies, whether in the shape of drugs, which exercise a special physiological influence on the system, or in whatever form, are useful only so far as they may excite, assist, or promote these natural curative processes.
Page i - But only a limited use of chemical power is made for the purposes of life. By no means is the whole range of the affinities which connect the various elements brought into play. The activity of the body is made to depend, so far as we can yet see, almost wholly upon one process, the union of oxygen with its substance. An animal, physically considered, is mainly a great oxidizing apparatus. By the incessant performance of this process the living frame becomes full of power, which is manifested in...
Page viii - Potash is now employed for the detection of sulphurous acid in officinal hydrochloric acid, and of the inferior oxides of nitrogen in nitric acid.
Page 46 - Correspondence. may, or may be supposed to do ; together with suggestions for their extensive employment. Among other things the author states that permanganate of potash " in the solid state gives the nearest approach to the actual cautery, since its action is of the nature of combustion by fire.