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98 times worse than before
"In every fever, there is a power applied to the body, which has a tendency to hurt or destroy it... In consequence of the constitution of animal economy, there are certain motions excited, which have a tendency to obviate the effects of the noxious power, or to correct or remove them. Both these kinds of motion are considered as constituting the disease. But the former is perhaps strictly the morbid state, while the latter is to be considered as the operation of the vis medicatrix naturae, or salutary tendency, and which I shall hereafter call the reaction of the system."
William Cullen, First Lines of the Practices of Physick, 1775
29th July, 2010 - Categories: [doodle] [figures] [monsters]
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