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/. CLINICAL. 

 EXTRACT I. 



OX CIRCULATION, IN ITS PATHOGENIC BEARINGS. 



On the progress of Medicine and Surgery. 



ONE of the pathological and histological results of the 

 acceptance of the foregoing views (see Vol I.), modified by 

 the application of criticism and subjection to everyday clini- 

 cal experience, we hope, and we think, will be the removal 

 of a large part of the diseases hitherto attributed to blood 

 influences, to the continually increasing class of acknow- 

 ledged nervine diseases such, for instance, as a large 

 proportion of the exanthemata, rheumatism, and gout, 

 and to a considerable extent metallic poisoning and many 

 of the bacterial diseases, including influenza, to which 

 may be added tetanus, hydrophobia, we might almost say, 

 el hoc genus omne, with many local as well as general 

 ailments, which have hitherto not been specially localised 

 or located, and a corresponding practical modification in 

 the application of medical and surgical curative and ameli- 

 orative procedure, in accordance with the changed stand- 

 point from which these diseases will then be regarded, and 

 the increased possibilities of treatment which will in con- 

 sequence be placed within available reach of the clinical 

 pioneer. 



The great mass of diseases, moreover, except perhaps 

 the purely local and structural, and even many of these 

 cannot fail to have their true nature more clearly and 

 fully apprehended by a "light from within" being, as it 



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