Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medica / [Thomas J. Graham].

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876
Date:
1832
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Credit: Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medica / [Thomas J. Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N.B. The reader's attention is requested to the foliovoing remarks: 3. By the term disorder of function is here meant, a derangement of the natural or healthy functions of the organ or part affected. For example, a disordered liver, or a disorder of the stomach, indicates a derangement of the biliary secretion, or a derange- ment in the secretions and general functions of the stomach. 2. By organic disease, or organic injury, is meant actual disease in the structure of the part affected, A diseased liver or stomach, therefore, means an actual alteration in the structure of the liver or stomach; which, for the most part, is incurable, except in the incipient stage, but commonly admits of great relief. Per- sons with organic disease may live and enjoy a large measure of comfort for many years, provided their method of living is well regulated. 3. As disorders or diseases of the lungs form so large a proportion of our bodily maladies, the reader will find it necessary to have some clear ideas of the structure of the lungs, in order to under- stand what is said of the nature and causes of asthma, cough, &c. I would, therefore, remark, that the most accurate investigations seem to prove that the pulmonary organs are principally com- posed of the windpipe, and its terminations called bronchia, which, at their extremities, are subdivided into a multitude of small canals, terminated by culs-de-sac of a globular form, grouped somewhat in the manner of the terminal branchlets of the cauliflower. So that we may say, that the parenchyma, or substance of the lungs, is formed by the aggregation of a multi- tude of small vesicles (called air cells,) of an irregularly spheroid or ovoid figure, full of air, and separated from each other by opaque white partitions.