Triumphs of "Young Physic," or Chrono-Thermal Facts (Classic Reprint) 12+

📓 Excerpt from Triumphs of "Young Physic," or Chrono-Thermal FactsOn a s gestion which the reader will find in Dr. Turner's Introduction, the Fallacies o the Faculty' is now again presented to the public under its second title - the chrono-thermal System of Medicine. In the face of much opposition, this system has already made its way pretty well in the world. Reprinted in America, it has had the further honor to be translated into three of the continental languages - French, German, and Swedish; while the sale of nearly six thou sand copies of former editions in this country, speaks favorably for its reception among the British people. When Icome to relate how it has been received by the medical profession, the great body of them, I fear, will not be much flattered, either by the matter or the manner of the relation.Fifteen years ago it was my fate - I can scarcely call it myfortune - to make two most important discoveries in Medicine, namely, the periodicity of movement of every organ and atom of all living bodies - and the intermittency and unity of All Diseases, however named, and by whatever produced. To these I added a third - the Unity of Action of Cause and Cure, both of which involve Change of Temperature. Such is the ground-work of the chrono-thermal system - so called from Chronos, Time or Period and Therma, Temperature, Heat. This I gave to the public in 1836. Then, for the first time, I announced the appalling fact, that up to that hour, the Professo...