A treatise on the diseases of females : disorders of menstruation.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the diseases of females : disorders of menstruation. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![tion that the blood globules are destroyed or disintegrated in the spleen. 2d. The quantity of albumen in the splenic vein is much greater than in any other blood-vessel; there are only T J£¥ m the blood of the vena porta, T Jf 7 in that of the external jug- ular, rf |F in that of the mammary artery, and as much as TWo m the blood of the splenic vein. Beclard very justly concludes that the disappearance of the blood globules in the spleen can be conceived of with difficulty, without their prin- cipal element (albumen) being thus found to be present in excess in the splenic vein. These facts render it very probable that excessive action of the spleen causes the diminution of the blood globules, and consequent pallor of the surface, in chlorosis, leucocythemia, and even in the paludal cachexia of fever and ague ; all allied diseases. This supposition, that the spleen is involved in chlorosis, will account for the frequency, obstinacy, and severity of the chlorotic and hysterical pain in the left side, just under the left breast. Leucocythemia, then, would differ from chlorosis, principally in the additional disease of the lym- phatic glands and system, which attend the former disease. The principal homoeopathic remedy against simple chlo- rosis is Plumbum ; against leucocythemia, are, Natrum muri- aticum, Iodine, Iodides of Iron and Lead, and Conium, or Belladonna. Treatment—Tilt says, that chlorotic patients are notorious- ly fond of ease, and all they want is to be allowed to remain in a state of muscular quietude ; but this desire must no more be listened to, than that of travellers yielding to the soporific effects of intense cold; for the habitually cold skin of chlorotic patients causes a half-poisoned state of the blood, by the re- tention of what should be excreted, and the imperfect oxyge- nation it undergoes ; with this vitiated, and lympathic, and venous blood, the internal organs are overloaded^[especially the spleen]. They should, therefore, be urged and enforced to exert themselves, so that the blood may circulate more rapidly, and thereby absorb that due quantity of oxygen](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21008413_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
