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ELEMENTS

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MATEEIA MEDICA.

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THERAPEIA GENERALIS.H3ENERAL THERAPEÜTICS.

It is'divided iZt>tZr Ch llaS f ? r itS ° b J ect the treatfflent of diseases.

Authors are noufrted 71 ^ S^alis) and special (Therapeia specialis.)°f }he word, and which I hJe SS [TT' 'l^ ° f Thera P eut ics. I» the most exlended senseand consequently, all ur. cal ot r' n teX '' " e ™ braCCS aM the known mearls ° f «I»,

Wer apeaH / g ' ™V«1 °Per«tions. Guersept, {Dictimnaire de Medecine,t om . x x . art.

' ted °m«n s ahoughheinXSm ^ e » Am P Utatl0 S s ' Li t"otomy, Tracheotomy, &c. fromfons which are usefol hp ,, " odletUn /' Issues - Betons, Aoupuncture, and all hose opera-Propertie 8 . m the treatment of d.seascs, by producing modifications of the vital

c »re: »"rfd ^TT^ es Medic <*>> tom, i. p. 7) applies the term Iatreusologia (from ,««■,», /

'«; and ^ 0>oc , 0 ^Z ""oiea, tom. i. p. 7) applies: - Bischoff. Wp f.?' ° m a * or ' a rmerfy, 8

E. Bischoff, Die £,;,'/ a ? r ' a «werf*/, and A»y»r,) or Iamatolo^ia (C. H.18 25) (f rom ,«*« „ 1 W0 ? den ehemischen Heilmitteln. Bd. i. S. 22. Bonn,devoted to the consirl I *• Js and X ° y ° T ^ is that department of Therapeutics

Some authors (Spre'n "l remedies.

r atmn of surgical «nd^ c j l ^{j^^ n E:. BUehoff S ° P ***** "' -) Umit Aool °^ to the consid e-

«sed in SaLg"?^^•" "^ me ' /e0r ' * heaI; <*»*»« «Äa) are agentsThe first affect ÄnH,^ P s V chica! - or mental; and somatical, or coroora/.

M ^; the second ^o^cX^yf^^ ^^ ^ *» ^^ ° f ^

!• REMEDIA PSYCHICA.-PSYCHICAL ORMENTAL REMEDIES.

action of °mor°bihv e mind influence the corporal Functions,* favour or oppose the

"Tj^^-JzJl^^^ and modify the progress of diseases.

'üftta «»£ ro S oB ° e, ""resi, 8 0 niT, 1 f !0 Ji. In ^?J ^»ai» 8 - be inaccume. We know that changes in the co^dÜ^T*

substanr-e °, f / h< ' mentÄ,?,? altera,i0ns ,n ll,e Etate ofmlnd : and il ma v be fai.lv inferred UiatrhmStance - lf thi 8 be tr,/* c '' ,es a , re "ecessarily associated with snme moiecular aiterationintho Ä

led from r.oruornl. :»irn„t a :..„. „~ r llvL

evidenceof this. We r,,,"'"' "" remeaies aresnotfunctional as disti, ., y c ." nl inue to spenfc of mental a

ihn I°I so,ne Partinent „h fl ' ora "•?««« diseases. ^^^ -----,—..

me body, see Dr. j.j U |;" 0se f v atioiis on the powerfnl influence of mental caus"s in H-r,„ • u ^

Vol. I ___6 Joh ^W s Essay m lnd ^ uami 10th ud . 1840. '" deran 8'ng the function. of

'"-"' "' uu.pi.iai. um, in nie ansence of direri .in,l m •■■Mri as distinguished from «^j agents Jus, as w^ak