First principles of medicine / By Archibald Billing.

  • Archibald Billing
Date:
1831
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    the nature of healthy functions (which is attainable from lectures), are, accurate observation of the diseases which take place in external parts as they are submitted to our senses in CLINICAL SURGERY, and in the func- tions of internal parts as met with in CLINICAL MEDI- CINE; and moRBID ANATomY, the examination of of what is the degree and nature of alteration which has taken. place in the structure of the seat of the disease. The object of lectures is to convey to the student in a condensed manner, that knowledge in abstract, which will enable him to understand what he sees at the bed side, and the observations of the clinical professor; without which clinical instruction all that the memory may be charged with from books or lectures is but vanity. : Without entering into minute anatomy, it may be necessary before proceeding any farther, to give a gene- ral idea of the apparatus which supports the life of man, consisting of, the stomach and intestinal canal called the PRiMa# vim, the ABSORBENT VESSELS, the HEART and BLOOD VESSELS, and the NERVES. The heart is divided by a partition, each side con- taining a certain quantity of blood, more or less of which is squeezed out at each beat or contraction, the blood from the left side is sent through the trunk and branches of the arteries, to nourish the different parts of the body, the overplus, and what is spoiled by use, being returned through the veins to the right side, which sends it by arteries into the lungs to be purified, whence it is returned by veins to the left side again, thus constituting what is called the crRCULATION.