Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor.

  • George H. Taylor
Date:
1871
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Credit: Diseases of women : their causes, prevention, and radical cure / by Geo. H. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The paramount use of this connection is the conveying of material; in other words, the mo- tion of the fluids bearing the incipient vita] sub- stance. The minute instruments of force which, aggregated, form muscle and nerve are organized from material thus derived. These organized structures express their functional power, that is, yield their force, through the agency of oxygen, which arrives through the same channels to the point of use. We must bear in mind that disease and im- perfect and perverted nutrition mean much the same thing. They indicate stages of the same process. The initial stage must be connected with the transformation of non-organized matter to its organic forms. The capillary blood-ves- sels furnish the conditions whereby these changes are effected. These vessels, therefore, bear most intimate relations to vitality, whose diseased ex- pression may have two opposite forms—Anaemia and Hypercemia. The first of these terms indicates that nutritive supply is insufficient for local needs ; it becomes so through, deficiency of material, or through deficiency of the causes which, carry forward the blood. The deficiency of power and function