LECTURE IV.
ON
EXTERNAL DISEASES,
AND THEIR
CURE.
In this lecture I shall treat of external disorders, which may take their origin either from injuries, or from internal acrimony of habit; for whatever disturbs the animal œconomy, prevents the natural order of the fibres, and those again when in disorder, corrupt the fluids.
Be the causes what they will, certain it is, that there is a strict connexion between the external and the internal parts, to which due regard ought ever to be paid. I shall without delay proceed to their various kinds.