Remarks on the unity of the body : as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / by George Macilwain.

  • George Macilwain
Date:
1836
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Credit: Remarks on the unity of the body : as illustrated by some of the more striking phenomena of sympathy, both mental and corporeal, with a view of enlarging the grounds and improving the application of the constitutional treatment of local diseases / by George Macilwain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    masked by the sympathetic geia^ra] dis- turbance. The sympathy of the alimentary canal with the mouth, fauces, and the nose, all of which have something of a concurrent function with it, has been already men- tioned ; to which, as occasionally referring to these parts, as well as the gustatory sense, may be added, nausea. The sym- pathies of several parts of the alimentary canal might be enlarged on to any extent; and much might be said on affections which appear as primarily affecting the duodenum; but the facts mentioned are familiar, and appear sufficient i my present object is not furthered by any unnecessary multiplication of illustration. Alimentary Canal and Skin. These parts are, as it were, shaded off into each other, by that attenuated modifi- cation of cuticle which is seen at the points of communication between the external and internal surfaces of the body. As the two
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