On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson.
- Alderson, James, 1795-1882.
- Date:
- 1853
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tlie diseased condition. Perhaps tlie most important of these constituents is the fibrine. In its na^tural state it appears to be in a grade of development beyond the albumen or the blood corpuscles. In a sort of sense, it may be considered as more approach- ing to an organized state, prepared or ready elabo- rated to form part of the solids of the body. Although, by analogy with the development of the egg of oviparous animals, we must conclude that fibrine is originally formed from albumen, since the egg contains nothing but albumen and fat, and from those alone, assisted by oxygen, admitted through the pores of the shell (a process analogous to respiration), all the organs of the future animal are produced; yet there are pathological con- siderations which indicate that it is not directly or consecutively by the expenditure of albumen that fibrine is generated. It is stated by Eobin* and Verdeil that it is formed from albumen, by what they term isomeric catalysis: this suggestion is, however, no more than bestowing a new name on the process of conversion. The elementary compo- sition of fibrine and of albumen is weU known to be identical; therefore, to assert by a new phraseology merely that they are the same and in contact, exerting a presence action, adds no explanation of * Traite de Chimie Anatoniique et Physiologiciue, Paris, ] 853.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22276336_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
