A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter.

  • John Hunter
Date:
1810
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the hydrophobia, seems to be owing to a particular irritation affecting certain parts, which shews, that if the body or any part of the body is irritated, it takes on a disposition to act in a peculiar manner, and that this mode of action is capable of secreting such juices as will throw an- other animal into the same action. In the hydrophobia the throat and its glands are particularly affected ; and how the saliva should become of such a nature from the same kind of matter being either carried into the constitution, or perhaps only by the general sympathy of the con- stitution with a local affection, and more particularly with the parts about the throat, is not easily to be accounted for, without supposing either that the absorbed poison circulating can produce a specific con- stitutional action capable of affecting the throat and glands there, just as the poison of the small pox affects the skin, or that the circulating poison has power to affect or irritate the glands of the mouth only, or that those parts only are capable of immediately sympathising with the part irritated, as the muscles of the lower jaw are when they pro- duce the locked jaw. If this theory is just, it accounts for epidemical diseases arising from seasons, air, Sec. irritating in such a manner, as to produce a fever, the effluvia of which shall irritate in the same manner; for it is not in the least material how the original irritation arises, it is only necessary that the animal should act according to the stimulus given by that irritation.
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