A practical essay on disease and injuries of the bladder : being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / by Robert Bingham.

  • Bingham, Robert.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A practical essay on disease and injuries of the bladder : being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / by Robert Bingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appropriated to it. From knowing this, we might, upon taking a superficial view of the subject, be led to infer that organi- zation was the sole agent in effecting the secretion of animal fluids; but as already observed, there must be some other agent, and that a chemical one; because organi- zation can only operate mechanically, it cannot separate from the blood that which does not previously exist in it, and many of the secretions are known to possess properties which cannot be detected in the blood. Allowing then the utmost that we can to the effects of organization, it cannot be more than this, viz., that dif- ferent kinds of organization are ne- cessary to effect different secretions by exposing the blood to the action of a chemical power under different circum- stances, whereby the same power pro-