An improved system of domestic medicine : founded upon correct physiological principles : comprising a complete treatise on anatomy and physiology, the practice of medicine, with a copious materia medica, and an extensive treatise on midwifery, embellished with over one hundred useful engravings, gotten up expressly for family use / by Horton Howard.

  • Howard, Horton, 1770-1833
Date:
1856, ©1848-1852
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Credit: An improved system of domestic medicine : founded upon correct physiological principles : comprising a complete treatise on anatomy and physiology, the practice of medicine, with a copious materia medica, and an extensive treatise on midwifery, embellished with over one hundred useful engravings, gotten up expressly for family use / by Horton Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    passes through it. Certain it is, that this gland, under some forms of disease—those, for instance, which result from con- tagions, particularly from marsh miasma—it, like the conglobate glands, becomes inflamed and often indurated and swollen, thus showing its office in modifying the character of some of the materials of the blood. It has been said, however, that in some experiments on animals, the spleen has been cut out and removed without materially affecting the life of the animal. But if the office of the spleen is regarded to be that of neu- tralizing foreign and pernicious agents in the blood, it is not 6trange that its extraction from the body in a state of health, should affect the system but little for the time being.] SECTION 4. OP THE PANCKEAS. [This is an oblong, soft, glandular body, situated transversely across the posterior wall of the abdomen, in the left hypochon- driac region, just behind the stomach. It is about six inches long, and weighs, perhaps, four ounces. Its office is to secrete the pancreatic juice, which performs a part in digestion.] SECTION 5. OF THE PAROTID OR SALIVARY GLANDS. [The salivary glands are situated in front of the lower por- tion of the ear, just above the angle of the jaw, one on each side. They are small, soft bodies, and their office is to secrete the saliva, which is necessary to afford moisture to the mouth, and to supply fluid in the process of mastication. The saliva is important also to the function of digestion, and it is, therefore, a bad practice to take fluids, as teas, coffee, or even water, in large quantity, in connection with food. Drinking, at such times, prevents the flow of the saliva into the mouth, as it otherwise would. The salivary duct opens into the mouth opposite the second molar tooth, in the upper jaw. It is this gland that is affected in the disease called mumps.] SECTION 6. • OF THE SUB-MAXILLARY GLANDS. S^HESE are situated on the inside of the lower jaw, one on side of the mouth, anterior to the angle of the jaw. Their