Common sense; or the Abernethian code of health and longevity ; founded on the principles and practice of John Abernethy ... With extracts from Hunter, Cornaro, etc., etc. Likewise an introductory view of the living functions of the animal economy.

Date:
1834
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Credit: Common sense; or the Abernethian code of health and longevity ; founded on the principles and practice of John Abernethy ... With extracts from Hunter, Cornaro, etc., etc. Likewise an introductory view of the living functions of the animal economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How often, after death, are r ,,rbif sfeb- of brain, lungs, and heart, in vain looked for, while the cause of all the symptoms is either invisible or found in the stomach, which bad not apparently suffered. Animal Processes. Though however very minute and complex the parts of the animal structure may seem, the whole presents a beautiful picture of nice but simple arrangement: all the processes of which are designed for two great objects—the renovation and fdepulation of the body, in order to its preservation and well being. The processes of renovation in the animal economy may be reduced to three :— First, The process of digestion, or preparation of nourishment. Second, The process of animalization, or conversion of it into blood; and Third, The process of regeneration, or restoration of this blood to its pristine condition, when deprived of any of its principles in its passage through the circulation. And in the same manner, in order to a full perfection of the whole animal fabric, three other processes are employed to depurate the system when renovated by the former, viz. 1. By the intestines, to carry off from the body what is noxious and effete in the preparatory process. 2. By the kidnies, to deprive the system of saline impurities circu¬ lating in the blood, and derived from the same source; and the 3. By the skin, acting for the same purpose, the one by mutual sympathy with the other : thus, in cold weather, the kidnies are the acting depurating organ, while, in warm, the skin takes the lead. Deductions on the Importance of the Primary Organs, < particularly the Stomach, After the foregoing explanations, in which the primary organs are to be looked to in the proper exercise of their functions, as the founda¬ tion and leading apparatus of the whole, for continuing the welfare of the machine, and especially the stomach, we will notice the following. ]. In no case can life exist without the stomach. 2. All matters for the support of life must pass through it.