Outlines of physiology : with an appendix containing heads of lectures on pathology and therapeutics / by William Pulteney Alison.

  • Alison, William Pulteney, 1790-1859.
Date:
1831
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    4. In the Nervous System, and Organs of Sense. 5. In the Bones, and other Organs of Locomotion. 6. In the Organs of Generation. OF DISEASED EXHALATIONS. Symptoms of Dropsical Eifusions in different parts of the System;—they are the accompaniments and conse- quences of other Diseased States, hardly ever the sole Diseases themselves. External Causes of these;—in a general view, those which excite Inflammation, and those which excite^Orga- nic Disease. Interna] Causes, and Explanation of these,—their con- nexion with Inflammation of different parts; with pre- vious Exanthemata; with Oi'ganic Disease of the Heart, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, &c.; with Debility. The different modes in which Diseases, attended with Dropsical Effusions, prove fatal. The third class of Diseased Actions to he considered, consists of those which appear to depend essentially on changes of the Fluids. Scorbutus. Diseases observed from damaged or diseased grain. Diseases observed from other ingesta acting slowly as poisons. Their Symptoms,—their remote causes,—the variety in the action of these. These diseases are apparently of- ten dependent, not simply on the nature of the ingesta, but partly also on the state of tlie vital powers.
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