 | 1866 - 728 pages
...since it is no way efficient in inducing the most formidable symptoms of the disease, but should rather be regarded as a conservative effort on the part of Nature to eliminate the morbific matter from the system — a theory which is attractive from its plausibility,... | |
 | Roland Edward Skeel - 1916 - 704 pages
...diseases may lead to a gradual cessation of menstruation, under which circumstances the amenorrhea is to be regarded as a conservative effort on the part of nature to preserve the patient's strength by checking blood loss. Amenorrhea in tuberculous patients is so common... | |
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In view of the part played by developmental abnormalities of the fetus in the production of abortion, it is apparent that in many instances its occurrence should not be regarded as a misfortune but rather as a conservative effort on the part of nature... 