Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Focling or Furring, or first indications of the eominencemcnt and progi-ess of disease.—Tliis is shown by the fiir gradually coming down from tlie hack part, and spreading finm edge to edge towards the tip, in an elliptical form. Fig. 3. As all the first actions of disease are of an acid or conges- tive character, it is seen that the parts first aftected are the instinctive or more animal and sensual, such as those relating to eating and diinking, with the involuntary acts of respira- tion. Then follow the stomach, bronchial tubes, and por- tions of the reflective brain, with all their various derange- ments. These jiresent by far the most nranerous cases for treatment, hut, as I have previously said, the easiest to be got at. It then follows that the deeper-seated portions of the limgs can only bo aftected by the previous neglect in re- moving the first causes of their becoming diseased. The same also with the kidneys; for if it be borne in mind that these organs are only intended to remove acid elements in excess of what the system requires, with the help of the skin,