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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    Ave are lost Avliicli to admire most,—the Inorganic Fluid elements, circulating and permeating everywhere freely, and not in vessels of any kind ; or the arterial, capil- lary, and venous currents, circulating in their especial vessels, all three of Avhich have distinctive poAvers and uses. The Lacteals, Al)sorbcnts, and Lympha- tics, being vessels, convey their OAvn currents, each set being endoAvcd Avitli separate duties. Lastly, the Neuve CiKCULATiONS,the substances of Avhich are composed of a semi-fluid, semi-solid consist- ence, and are conA’eycd in tubes. The Nerves provide for themselves, and support their oAvn structures, giving every sense of pleasure and pain, through every organ specially allotted to convey these actions in their sen- tient capacities, and ultimately to gl\'e all poAvers and forces to all parts rerpiiring them, by their motive characters. We see, therefore, that not one of all these divi- sions of the circulating media can do Avithout the other; all are dependent on each other in millions of Avays ; all give and take, and mutually assist each other. But Avhen Physiology narroAvs the limits and forces of the body, all its upholdings, constructions, and reconstruc- tions after injuries, and, in fact, its very existence, and assigns all these to one circulating medium alone, The Blood, and gives this a pre-eminence, and solo poAver to do and supply everything (as it has most un- Avisely and untruthfully done), it is time, I think, to reconsider the Avhole ])lan of Nature. I have every