Volume 1

Collections from the unpublished medical writings of Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Caleb Hillier Parry
Date:
1825
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Credit: Collections from the unpublished medical writings of Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    begins its triumph over imagination. Of this writer we have three distinct works; the first of which, intitled ‘* Recherches sur la Vie et la Mort,”’ professes, as its title implies, to distinguish, class, and explain, the various phenomena of life and death. As, how- ever, it is almost wholly physiological and patholo- gical, including scarcely any consideration of the structure of parts, I shall reserve to another place the analysis of its contents and opinions. [1812.] CIRCULATING SYSTEM. Circulation.—lIt is the present mode, from Bichat, to consider life as of two kinds, organic and animal, The first is common to vegetables and animals. There is, however, this important difference be- tween the constitution of vegetables and animals, that while the organic life of the former depends little on any external principle, that of the latter is greatly dependent, for the due performance of its functions, on animal life. ‘Thus persons in a long state of rest and seclusion from mental irritations, have diseases of circulation brought on, and through them the animal and entire life shortened. On the other hand, certain excesses in the animal part of the frame produce derangement of the functions of organic life, which is disease, and may amount to either gradual decay, or sudden extinction of vitality,
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