Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    involving accommodation must be abandoned. The strain on the ocular muscles during convergence is relieved ; the increase in the posterior staphyloma is arrested. In other cases the abandonment of binocular vision leads to the same end. The morbid correlations associated with inflamed varicose veins may be interrupted in a similar way. Prolonged recumbency relieves the reciprocally acting tension and dilatation which caused so much pain, and often leads to recovery. The common back-ache associated with a congested and prolapsed uterus is another indication of the need for rest. The displaced and congested organ gradually returns to its normal situation, congestion and prolapse being simultaneously relieved. Rest is also the common mechanism by which dyspeptic disorders are cured. Here the associated functions of peristalsis, secretion and absorption are impaired, depreciating each other, and constituting what Ewald has called “a Vicious Circle in optima forma Nature imposes a period of physiological rest by the suppression of appetite. Especially will recovery be rapid if rest to the gastric mucosa is combined with such an improved circulation by means of exercise as will stimulate peristalsis, and thus remove the products of imperfect digestion.