The Structure and Functions of the Female Breast; As They Relate to Its Health, Derangement, and Disease (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of a disease which would make its appearance under other Pricliard's Researches, b. 9. ch. i. sect. 7. + Saussure, Voyages dans les Alps. Bostock's Physiology, p. 800. circumstances. The constant change that is daily taking place in the animal structure must be influenced by climate and diet, and this is most clearly pointed out by the appearance of cretinism in certain parts of Switzerland, as exemplified in the previous extract. That disease is peculiar to certain countries there can be little doubt, or that the body is subject to certain deposits when residing in particula1 districts is also most certain. We see in Derbyshire, as well as in other localities, that bronchocele is extremely prevalent, the cause of which at present is not generally understood. In other districts the formation of stone is most frequent. Struma, phthisis, and numerous other complaints are most common in this country, and are very rare in some foreign districts, whilst other complaints are frequent in their occurrence there, and which we are almost unacquainted with here. Many complaints are cured and considerably influenced by change of air, climate, and diet; and why should cancer be uninfluenced by the very means that remove other diseases? Why cannot that peculiar state of the constitution which has been stated to exist in those that are to be affected by cancer, be changed, altered, or amended by the influence of climate, district, diet, mode of life, employment, &c.? These different changes must influence, even to some extent, the appearance of the disease; grief, affliction, the anxious watching of a mother over her child, has been attributed as a cause of the disease, and yet climate and temperature, which influences animal life, has been set down as perfectly uninf...