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Excerpt from Therapeutics of Zymotic Diseases
Mr. Aitken in his new and elaborate work on The Science and Practice of Medicine, makes dietic diseases, of which are purpura, scurvy, rickets, bronchocele and some other kindred diseases, his third order of zymotic affections. In all the diseases however of this order, there is no reason to say that we have a poisonous element introduced into the system, which at the expense of the blood proceeded to multiply itself and disintegrate that ?uid. But the material for the supply of healthy blood and its regular manufacture for the uses of the system is withheld. The blood becomes thereby truly vicious perhaps even we may say zymotic; but it is well to remember that no fair zymotic process has taken place; foreign elements are therefore not to be removed by processes of vital elimination, or eliminative therapeutics, so much as a restorative policy is demanded. Remedies - hygiene, food-which will restore deficient elements are called for; that is to say, for dietic diseases, we must resort to a dietic plan of medication.
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