Principles of organic life : showing that the gases are of equal importances with the solids and fluids in the laws which regulate the progress of matter from the lowest inorganic to the highest organic conditions / [Benjamin Ridge].
- Ridge, Benjamin
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principles of organic life : showing that the gases are of equal importances with the solids and fluids in the laws which regulate the progress of matter from the lowest inorganic to the highest organic conditions / [Benjamin Ridge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dent of the supjdy of the inorganic fluid lubricators, and, as I consider, merely accessory to them and their uses and influences. I will not and cannot go so far as to say that fevers are due to abnormal conditions of the spleen; yet it is a curious fact, which I have observed hundreds of times, that persons who never sufter thirst, and scarcely know what it is, are never subject to fevers; while those who suffer from thirst, are those Avho suffer from and are most liable to fevers. Putting all these things together; I think it is to the spleen, and the blood which passes therefrom, to help and to mix with all the other residual blood of the abdominal viscera, that we owe the bitter principle, as well as other valuable properties of the bile. The bile must obtain its alkalinity, as well as its saponification and all other peculiarities, from the chemico-vital processes which take place in the liver; ju’ecisely in the same way, that deposition of structural deposits from the blood at certain parts produce, by their peculiar matrices on which they impinge, the varied structures we see; while its quantity, what- ever that may be, varying at different times, must de- pend on the supjily and character of the residual blood, both from the spleen and the abdominal viscera. It is a great delusion to call a liver sluggish which makes no bile, when ])robably there are no elements there for that purpose. On the other hand, excess of elements are often sent to the liver, and consequently excess of bile is made. The action and duties therefore of the liver are more regulated by the condition of the blood sent to it, than by any other cause. If we view the size of the organ and its siinjile structure and duties compared with every other, we cannot be justified in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2807256x_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
