Some conditions of adolescence in which Fellows' hypophosphites is beneficial / [James I. Fellowes].

  • Fellows, James I.
Date:
1889
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    health, a ready reason exists for the evidence of a failure in this harmonious correlation in enlarged lymphatic glands, in so-called strumous tendencies, and in abdominal glandular disorders during ado= lescence. As Dr. Henry Bennet well puts it:—“During the earlier periods of life, not only has the organization to repair the wear, the waste of tissue continually going on in the young, as well as in the old, and to keep up its standard of heat, but it has also to build up the frame to the degree of development which it is destined to reach. This it does, as we have seen, by its own inherent vitality, each organ appropriating the additional nutriment it requires from the blood, and gradually adding to its bulk. It is, in a great measure, to meet this demand on the part of the economy, for the elements of nutrition, that the young have such large appetites, such a power of rapid digestion, and that they con¬ sume such large quantities of food. The young of man and of all other animals are also ever active, ever in motion, so that the waste, from use, must be great. The current of nutritive life in children is thus truly a rapid one.” * “ Nutrition in Health and Disease,” p. 56.—James Heney Bennet.