On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner.

  • John Ashburner
Date:
1834
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Credit: On dentition, and some coincident disorders / by John Ashburner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    eruption throws too abundant a duty upon the serous surfaces of the interna] organs, and by a reflux of blood ends in an inflammation or a congestion of these parts. Such may be the termination of an eruption repelled, but it is not so ne- cessarily. When the reflux of blood is upon the brain, the pressure irritates the nerves of the organ, and a spasmodic consequence may take place. But the conditions of all changes in the animal economy vary in degree. The change may be only to the amount of a blush upon some part of the brain, or perhaps the most minute increased secretion of the natural exudation upon the serous surface of the brain. This is not neces- sarily an inflammation, yet the change may proceed to an amount of irritation that shall be productive of spasm in that part of the body to which the nerve sends messengers. The brain may be in one of several very different condi- tions. Perhaps under one of these con- ditions the blush, or the effort at secre- tion, produces an inconvenience which is propagated over the brain. The mes- sage of such an inconvenience sent to the surface of the body is first a chill; the skin is corrugated; involuntarily the wholemuscular apparatus movesslightly