General debility and defective nutrition : their causes, consequences, and treatment / by Alfred Smee.

  • Alfred Smee
Date:
1862
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Credit: General debility and defective nutrition : their causes, consequences, and treatment / by Alfred Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTEJ^TS. CHAPTER I. Primary powers of matter, 1—Comparison between the human body and fire, 2—Normal action of fire, 3—Ab- normal action, 4—Analogous changes of man to that of fire, 5, 6—States of man, 7, 8—Changes of man, 9, 10 —Combinations of elements, 11—Proximate elements, 12—Equivalents of food, 13, 14—Equivalents of waste, 15—Intermediate changes, 16—Structure of man, 17— Double voltaic circuit, 18—Functions of blood, 19— Endosmotic action, 20—Different effects in different tissues, 21—Sleep, 22—Necessity for rest, 23—Blood corpuscles, 24—Nutrition of the body, 25—Changes in the body, 26—Eelation of change to fuel, 27—General remarks, 28 CHAPTER n. ON THE VARITIES AXD SYJirTOMS OF DEBILITY. DebUity, 29, 30—Complications of, 31—State of health, 32—Sufficient food, 33, 34—Incapacity for sensation, 35 —Incapacity for thought, 36—Incapacity for rest, 37— Other failures of performance, 38—Capricious appetite, 39—Failure of nutrition, 40—Feebleness of the heart, 41—Debility mistaken for di.scase, or incubation of disease, 42 ........