A dissertation on the pathology of the human fluids / by Jacob Dyckman.

  • Jacob Dyckman
Date:
1814
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    ]59 The blood and other juices will easily putrefy, either in the whole or any part of the body, by being entirely deprived of their accustomed motions.* If, for example, by a tight ligature or other means, the vital or circulatory motion of the blood be stopped in a leg or an arm, a mortification soon follows. The same thing frequently happens when from an internal ob- struction, the influent juices are denied admis- sion into any member or part of the body; but in both these cases the most obvious cause is the loss of motion. In short, the tendency of the animal fluids to corruption or putrefaction will, ceteris paribus, be greater or less according to the degrees of motion impressed upon them by the heart and their contractile vessels. We have hitherto insisted upon the power of motion and antiseptic food, in retarding or counteracting the putrescency of the animal fluids; but the motion all along alluded to is that called vital or involuntary, which must not be con- * Nam i«» toto humano corporc, et in singuio artu, continue humores putrescunt, quando mot.is suppress* est. Hvm.k*.