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An essay on the disorders of people of fashion; and a treatise on the diseases incident to literary and sedentary persons / By S.A. Tissot ... Translated from the last French edition; with notes, by a physician.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1772
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Credit: An essay on the disorders of people of fashion; and a treatise on the diseases incident to literary and sedentary persons / By S.A. Tissot ... Translated from the last French edition; with notes, by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it: therefore the nourifhment of the child is taken from that of the mother, and if fhe has. not a good appetite while fhe nourifhes, fhe muft ll day, and throws: many women into a languid: ftate and a diforder of the nérves. But if the milk, which fometimes appears to: form in. the veffels before it is carried to the breafts, is not depofited there, or after it is, if it, returns to the mafs of humours, it operates. like a ftrange body, which is incapable of affimi- lating with the blood *; it acts like any other irri-. * Incapable of affimilating with the bliod.] The general dif-- fufion of the milk, its determination to particular organs (de~ pots laiteux,) and large milky evacnations without it having e- ver appeared in:the breafts, would lead one to imagine that pregnancy produced.fuch a change on the veflèls, as enabled. them to convert the chyle into milk without the intervention of. the breafts. To explain this a€tion willbe difficult, perhaps even: impoflible,, but that isnot a fufficient caufe for our rejecting: it: may not.we conjecture, and that too with fome degree. of probability, that tho’ the milk was not obferved in the. breafts, yet in reality it exifted there, though in fmalf quan- tity; but not making its way by the proper excretories, it re turned into the veflels, where aéting-upen that part of the: mafs to which it bore the greateft analogy, viz:the chyle, this by affimilation it rendered‘perfe@ milk : the firft chyle, now transformed to milk, aéts upon the-next, and thus the greate(t: part of the chyle is fo changed as.to become milk without ever, having been carried to the breaft. This explains very well all. the diforders prodiced by mitk iñ-women who never had the- appearance of having any, which is not a rare cafe ; thofe dif- orders frequently being of.a moft-dangerous nature. There are a good number of very curious experiments to he. made upon this head; firft, to fix and determine exactly the. characters of milk and chyle, the refemblanees between which have been given, but not-the differences ; fecondly, to know : the effects of milk injected into the veflels ; one may this way. produce artificial diffüfions of milk and obferve the effeéts pro- ceeding therefrom :- perhaps we thould fee-milk fevers, excre- men:itious evacuations of the fame kind, depofitesof milk, fup-. purations, convulfions, palfies, rottennefs of the bones, lux- ations, and all the dreadfultrain of fymptoms which fome- times attend in-lying women. T. . tating |