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ADJUSTER
Sudden death of persons apparently in good health are often
particularly obscure. In many o f them we have to acknowledge
that we can find no sufficient cause for the death. This is, of
course, due to our imperfect knoAvledge, but it is much better in
such cases to avow ignorance than to attribute the death to some
trifling lesion. The brain and the heart are the organs which
are especially capable of giving symptoms during life, without
corresponding lesions after death. Very well-marked cardiac
or cerebral symptoms may continue for days or months and
apparently destroy life and yet, after death, we find no cor
responding anatomical changes. But it should be remembered
that recent advances in our knowledge o f the cell, which an
improved technique in hardening and preparation has greatly
fostered, have already shown that under various abnormal con
ditions the cells, especially of the nervous system, may undergo
morphological changes of great significance without perceptible
alteration in the gross appearance of the affected part, changes
which even the microscopic examinations of the past have failed
to disclose. So that, while there often appears to be a wide
discrepancy between symptoms and lesions, with the increase of
knowledge the scope of this discrepancy is steadily narrowing.
It is the novice in post-mortem examinations who is partic
ularly apt to mistake for lesions ordinary post-mortem alter
ations or the effects of embalming processes.
The cause of death is not always to be found in the organ
primal ily affected or which shows the most pronounced lesions.
Thus chronic diffuse nephritis may exist for years with more
or less marked symptoms of disease. But death may finally be
due to a weakened heart which was secondarily involved, or
occur in uremic convulsions, the brain showing no lesions at all.
It is desirable, therefore, and in the majority o f cases possible,
to differentiate between obvious lesions and the cause of death.”
“ The bony lesion a cause of disease,” in the November number
o f Osteopathy, is the head line of an article.
Dr. A. T. Still does not make use of the words, “ bony lesion”
or lesion in his work on Osteopathy, date 1892.
Dr. A. P. Davis, a member of A. T. Still’s first class, in his
masterly work on osteopa thy o f 846 pages, does not use the
words “ bony lesion” or lesion.
Since the advent of Chiropractic, there has arisen a class of
osteopaths named “ lesion osteopaths,” who believe in displaced
bones as the cause of disease.
A D. D. S. insists that a lesion is the result of a wound
or injury, that deranged functions is the lesion.
That which causes a disturbance of functions is lesional be
cause it is a disturbance maker. The damage done is because of
a lesion.
Sudden death of persons apparently in good health are often
particularly obscure. In many o f them we have to acknowledge
that we can find no sufficient cause for the death. This is, of
course, due to our imperfect knoAvledge, but it is much better in
such cases to avow ignorance than to attribute the death to some
trifling lesion. The brain and the heart are the organs which
are especially capable of giving symptoms during life, without
corresponding lesions after death. Very well-marked cardiac
or cerebral symptoms may continue for days or months and
apparently destroy life and yet, after death, we find no cor
responding anatomical changes. But it should be remembered
that recent advances in our knowledge o f the cell, which an
improved technique in hardening and preparation has greatly
fostered, have already shown that under various abnormal con
ditions the cells, especially of the nervous system, may undergo
morphological changes of great significance without perceptible
alteration in the gross appearance of the affected part, changes
which even the microscopic examinations of the past have failed
to disclose. So that, while there often appears to be a wide
discrepancy between symptoms and lesions, with the increase of
knowledge the scope of this discrepancy is steadily narrowing.
It is the novice in post-mortem examinations who is partic
ularly apt to mistake for lesions ordinary post-mortem alter
ations or the effects of embalming processes.
The cause of death is not always to be found in the organ
primal ily affected or which shows the most pronounced lesions.
Thus chronic diffuse nephritis may exist for years with more
or less marked symptoms of disease. But death may finally be
due to a weakened heart which was secondarily involved, or
occur in uremic convulsions, the brain showing no lesions at all.
It is desirable, therefore, and in the majority o f cases possible,
to differentiate between obvious lesions and the cause of death.”
“ The bony lesion a cause of disease,” in the November number
o f Osteopathy, is the head line of an article.
Dr. A. T. Still does not make use of the words, “ bony lesion”
or lesion in his work on Osteopathy, date 1892.
Dr. A. P. Davis, a member of A. T. Still’s first class, in his
masterly work on osteopa thy o f 846 pages, does not use the
words “ bony lesion” or lesion.
Since the advent of Chiropractic, there has arisen a class of
osteopaths named “ lesion osteopaths,” who believe in displaced
bones as the cause of disease.
A D. D. S. insists that a lesion is the result of a wound
or injury, that deranged functions is the lesion.
That which causes a disturbance of functions is lesional be
cause it is a disturbance maker. The damage done is because of
a lesion.
