Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-03
MEDICAL

the "-Chrono-Ihermal, Is coming INTO vogue IN
England, upon the subject of which a work
has been re-published in New York, edited by Dr..
Turner, late health commissioner of that city. DR..
Dickson is the English author.
DR.. Turner thus introduces the theory to the general
understanding. He observes that " DR.. Dickson's
views of disease are simple and easily understood.
More than twenty-three centuries he says have
elapsed since Hippocrates distinctly announced the
Unity of Morbid action-'omnimum morbum unus ct
idem modus est the type is one and identical. These
are his words and this is my case. That is the case
upon which unprejudiced and disinterested posterity
will one day pronounce a verdict in my favor-for the
evidence I am prepared to adduce in its support, will
be found to be as perfect q chain Of positive and cir
cumstantial proof as ever was offered to human
investigation" This type" is fever and ague, or
intermittent fever.
The following are the conclusions to which DR.
Dickson arrives on the subject of health and disease.
L. The phenomena of perfect health consists in a
regular series of alternate motions or events, each
embracing a special period of time.
2. Disease, under all its notifications, is in the first
place a simple exaggerat;on or diminution of the
amount of the safre motions or events, and univer-
sally alternative with a period of comparative health,
strictly resolves itself into fever, remittent or inter-
intent, chronic or acute; every kind of STRUCTURAL
DISCRIMINATION from tooth-decay, to pulmonary con-
sumption, and that decomposition of the knee joint,
familiarly known as white-swelling, being merely
developments in its course. Tooth-c~onsumption, lung
consumption, knee consumption.
B. The tendency to Reorganization, usually demo-
minated acute or ~inflammatory, differs from the chro-
mic or s~crofulous in the mere amount of motion and
temperature, the former being more remarkably char
acterized by excess of both, consequently exhibits a
more rapid progress to decomposition of cure while
the latter approaches its respective termination by
more subdued, and therefore slower and less obvious
terminatiors of the same actions and temperature.
In what does consumption of a tooth differ from con-
sumption of the lungs, except in the difference of the
tissue involved, and the degree of danger to life,
arising out of the nature of the respective Offices of
each
The remedies in the treatment of disease, DR..
Dickson's terms chrono-therma from the relation which
their influence bears to time or period, and tempera-
ture, (cold or heat,) chronos being the Greek word
time, and therma for heat or Temperature. These
remedies are all treated of in the various modern
works upon the Materia Medica. The only agents
this system rejects are 50 the leech, the bleeding lancet
and the cupping instrument"
In relation to this book we find the following char
a~cteristic note from Chancellor Kent, in a New York
paper:
New YORK, % Union Place.
Mr.. Kent begs leave to return his thanks to DR..
Turner for Dickson's 80 Principle of the Chrono-Ther-
NAL System of Medicine" He has dipped into it very
specifically, but has read enough spdrSim to say that
it contains very interesting views of a science OF
: which Mr.. K. processes to be very ignorant, and
speaks of it with great difidence. He is one of that
class of persons who never had much faith in physic.
and has rarely permitted himself to be subject to its
discipline, and has always had great horror at the
: pernicious practice of blood-letting, ard prefers colo
! water effusion, simple diet, temperance, exercise anC
checrfulness to the whole Materia Medica. By thi.
means, and with the blessings of Providence, he hai
I o,.o,oI ,,,,ptorr,Dtol hoolfh ror oorl, lf, 20 -
day; and he will be 81 years old in July.
o. He thinks that DR.. Dickson's book is calculated t
: be very useful as well as very entertaining, and h.
e avails himself of this opportunity to assure DR.. Turne
: of his very high respects.
: ARTIFICIAL EYELrDs:-We learn from the Dedhan
Z (Mass) Democrat that a very important surgica
| operation was performed in that town, on Monday las
; by DR.. S. S. Whitney, upon Dir. Curtis Alden, age,
!, about 20 years. The object was the restoration o
Z parts of the face distorted in consequence of a burr
{ some Is or 10 years since. The deformity had be
: come permanent, and his appearance hideous. TIL
. eyeids were lost; consequently the ~eyeballs wer
e unprotected, in any degree, by their integuments
and one eye turned permanently upward and outward
the angle of the mouth drawn upwards, leaving tn
teeth on that side uncovered. The operation wa
instituted to restore these displacements, and tn,
u success, thus far, is encouraging, promising not only
the 8 luxury of winking," but great improvement i
his appearance. The operation is thus described:
III III lISl pace q lTCuldI lHClSIOn wa Indue
e corresponding in length and in its direction with tn
a inverted lid, so far as it could be traced up the part
v with which it had become identified the cicatri
Cor SCARF of the burn was then dissected away in sue
,e a manner as to form directly over the point upo
,e which the new lid is to be placed, a large triangula
J. surface of raw integuaent. Over this, a flap, whic
e was dissected from the Cheek on the one hand, an
a from the forehead on the other, was turned up wit
re what remained of the tarsal cartilage of the eyelids
10 and made to correspond as well as possible with tn
ball of the eye. An incisIon was then made throug
this flap Just below the edge of the tarsal ~cartilegt
through which the conjuctiva Cor the lining membran
: of the eye) was seen and drawn through. until tn
inverted lid was made to adapt itself to the form
the ~eyeball; a portion of this membrane was the
If excised, and the cut edge of the tarsal c~artileg
secured by stitches to the part contiguous.
2. CHRosoLoGY.-According to the Modern Jews, "
are now In the year of the world 1904 the Churc
of England considers it to be 5S4S the Church
Rome makes the World to be 7044 years old, and Ii
Septuagint 1922 years. Should there be any wond'
then that Father Miller has made mistakes about IL
e. same matter We may wake up early some mon
- mo onI find he - r.~bt of-w - Il . VII .zr-c &