The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
- Thomas Dancer
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic, designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![~ vention of the sensorium commune, the brain, an universal consent.—— Srcr. V. Any derangement of the stomach disorders the whole frame; and, vice 7 versa, there are few diseases in which the stomach does not participate.* The stomach, too, is the seat of pleasurable sensation, and a certain de- gree of distention in it is requisite to strength. Hunger is supposed to originate, either from the stimulating quality of the gastric juice, or else in a sense of the want of distention. + Srorion VI. On the Secreiions and Fxrcretions. , The last change our food undergoes, after being converted into chylé, Spor, VEr and conveyed into the circulation,:is sanguification, or its conversion “~~. into: blood ; from which the nourishment is immediately derived, and ~ from which proceed all the other fluids of the body. The manner in which nutrition and:secretion are performed is not well understood, and-. any inquiry on the subject-is of no great consequence in this place. - The secretions have all appropriate organs. The Urine is-secreted by the kidnies, which, collecting in the bladder, and™distending it, is discharged thence-by the contraction of its muscular coats. The Perspiration—The matter of. insensible perspiration, and of sweat, proceeds from the minute extreme vessels, opening over the whoie: surface of the body. This function has always been considered of great importance. to health, as serving to carry off the redundant ‘heat, and , certain matters, which, ifretamed in the system,-would prove noxious;]. . a B | SO. *-Sce Webster on the connexion of the stomach with the rest of the system. » + Girtanner considers hunger as arising frony increased or accumulated irritability of ‘the stos~ mach; und that the use of food is not merely that of nourishment, but to exhaust irritability. In proof of this. doctrine, it is observed, that hunger is-suspended by-the passions of the mind, by the-- taking of opium, &c. The Asiatics, in case of famine, which they are-subject to, have recourse’ - to, opium. ‘ ‘~ Some physicians are disposed to.consider the perspirable matter as an exhalation-only of the ~ fidid matter of the body, and that no danger is to be apprehended from its suppression (see Dar- win); but the contrary of this is demonstrated both by experiment a fact. The quantity of perspiration in one hour, according to Abernethy, is seventy-seven drachms of carbonic acid gas,. and half.that quantity of “nitrogen, 7. ¢. azote ;. so. that nearly three gallons are thrown out in the; Me ‘](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3288624x_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
