Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation; or, if changed, that they are recomposed and regain their active properties / [Edward Darrell Smith].

  • Edward Darrell Smith
Date:
1800
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation; or, if changed, that they are recomposed and regain their active properties / [Edward Darrell Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    21/72 page 13
    certain fubftances were conveyed, with little or no change of their propertie3, into the circulation. Hence they prefcribed in certain difeafes, the milk of animals, which had fed upon peculiar. vegeta- bles proper for thofe difeafes.. We know that milk conftitutes a confiderable portion of the aliment of man, in almoft every part of the globe. Some nations, as the Laplanders, have {earcely any other fubfiftence, during one feafon of the year. If cer- tain ative fubftances are conveyed into it um changed, it muft furely be of importance to afcertain thefe; as their introduction into the body, at fome periods of life, and in certain ftates of the fyftem, may be produétive of pernicious confequences. In like manner, much advantage may refult,’ from introducing into the difeafed ‘fyftem, in this way, medicines which could not be adminiftered in any other. Subfequent fa&s will tend to prove, that very deftructive habits may be thus acquired. An — inattention to diet in a nurfe, is often the unfufpect- ed caufe of diftrefling complaints in the fucking child, Active medicines, ‘taken into the circu- lating fluids of a nurfe, will affeét the child in an alarming manner. Inftances of this kind are not rare. . If by the collection of facts on this fubje@, - any hints may be given, which may lead to the dif- covery of a folvent of urinary or biliary calculi, it would ‘be of effential fervice to mankind. That this idea is not vifionary or impracticable, will be allowed by thofe who have inveftigated this fubje&
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image