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
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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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    cai’ried ofF, some waj or somehow. Again, in old or even middle-aged persons, who form the diseased and the ulcerated-leg class (and their name is legion), it will be often seen that these terrible-lookinr; sores graduallv heal up, for Nature has even stolen from these some life- ])reserving pi'operties; at the same time the sufferers get thinner and thinner. Nature in these cases begins to succumb—nourishment cannot be taken ; and so the stealing and burglary goes on everywhere, until these scavengers can find no more vital elements to collect, and death then closes the scene. All these acts of the Lacteals, Absorbents,and Lym- phatics are carried on, according to their own laws, but are, with the Arteries, Capillaries, and Veins, greatly dependent upon the Inorganic Fluid elements for their supply of sufficiently diluted currents. The commencement of the Lymphatics shows a distinct structural character, or funnel-like shape, for the greater facility of taking up their spoil; yet these are no doubt furnished with a filtering apparatus, to maintain all they take in a fluid state, for unless this was so, perfect liquid flow would cease, and Nature be found bungling with her sewers, as engineers and architects do Avith ours. Nature never bungles in her en<>-ineerin£r. It is clear that these three distinct circu- lating fluids arc contained in vessels with no open mouths, but with powers of carrying their contents to their ])ro])cr destinations. Of all this Avonderful variety of circulating media,