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Pottenger Jr., also entered the medical profession, whereupon he conducted famous studies on the diet and bodily responses of cats..
His son, Francis M.
He established a sanatorium in Monrovia, California where he treated cases of tuberculosis. worked as a doctor for several decades.
Pottenger Sr.
Francis M.
This text reveals the immense progress Medicine had made in understanding the workings of the nerves and organs, with a view to productive diagnosis and treatment of diseases, plus relief of symptoms.
Pottenger enthusiastically explains and cites other studies by respected contemporaries in the field.
Much of the data and facts are still relevant and crucial to modern medicine, and Dr.
First published in 1919 and revised in 1922, this superb text offers a historical insight on organ disease.
The most important elements in the body, such as the vagus nerve, receive frequent reference as ailments peculiar to each organ are traversed in the narrative.
Crucially, we find appended over 100 charts, illustrations and sketches which demonstrate the biological workings which the author describes.
The musculature, such as the sphincter System and vasodermal system, is also examined.
We learn how the functioning of the Nervous System is intricately linked with the body\'s organs, and how maladies afflicting each and any of these organs have various effects upon the Nervous system.
Pottenger uses throughout the text, we are told how the body is to be segmented and analyzed part by part.
Beginning with an overview of the classification System Dr.
A fascinating account of diseases manifesting in the human body, this book offers an account of the common illnesses and their effects. explains the nature of ailments in the human internal organs, their signs and symptoms, and their affiliation and effects upon the sympathetic and parasympathetic Nervous system.
Francis Marion Pottenger Sr.
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