On the special function of the sudoriparous and lymphatic systems : their vital import, and their bearing on health and disease / by Robert Willis.
- Robert Willis
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the special function of the sudoriparous and lymphatic systems : their vital import, and their bearing on health and disease / by Robert Willis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![hour must have amounted to more than an ounce and a lialf. Dr SouthAvood Smith mentions the case of a man, the subject of one of his experiments, Avho having lost 3 lbs. Aveight by perspiration and pulmonary exhalation during more than an hour’s hard Avork in a A’’ery hot atmosj)here, regained 8 ounces by immersion in a Avarm bath at 95° F. for half an hour. This subject is Amry fully discussed by Dr Oarpentei’,* to Avhom I have to acknowledge my immediate indebtedness for acquaintance AAUth manj'' of the facts here adduced. Various other illustrative instances referred to by Dr Carpenter are, in my opinion, either incredible in themselves, or without that character of accuracy which is now held imperative as giving scientific value to any extraordinar}'’ statement. In Dr Cur- rie’s case of the patient affected with d5rsphagia, for instance, Avhose thirst Avas abated, and whose life was probably pro- longed, by the exhibition’of enemata and the use of the Avarm bath, it is impossible, as Dr Carpenter justly observes, to dis- criminate between the influence of the enemata and that of the bath. In the case of Dr Lining, again, who believed that, upon one occasion, he had gained 8| ounces in two hours [Qy from a moist atmosphere or a warm bath], such being the dif- ference in the weight of his person at the beginning and the end of the interval mentioned, and allowance made for the ingesta and the egesta during the same time. But the Doctor appears to have been regaling himself during the trial with both solid and liquid aliment, and though he took note of the fluids he took none of the water contained in the solids he con- sumed. As to Dr Watson’s case of the lad at Newmarket, who by starvation and sweating had been brought down to the proper Aveight for riding a match, and Avho, between the hours of 9 a.m., when he was of the weight required, and 10 a.m., when he Avas found to have gained as much as 30 oz., “ though he had only drunk half a glass of wine in the inter- A^al,” I should beg to be allowed, as is done in parliamentary](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21309553_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
