The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tremity of the bone with the] And the affection of one or- other ; and of the body of the | gan, weakens the one or those mivasle with its insertion ; of! with which it has comnection, the skin with the parts below | thus in inflammation of the it; and all these systems, are | womb, irregularities of the connected to the general sys- | stomach, &e., the brain is tem by a universal sympathy. weakened through sympathy, Ishall give but one instance | and the head, it is said, swims: for demonstration. when the head is inflamed, er In pregnancy, and at the} rather the brain and its mem- menstrual periods, the uterus} branes, the womb becomes is active, but, when the child | too weak for its natural offi- is born, the action of the ute-| ces; the stomach and bowels rus subsides, while the breasts in their turn betome active, i system following suit: hence and secrete milk. If, at this | the debility and general ema- time we should again produce | ciation attendant on such com- action in the — uterus, we di-; plaints; and the necessity of minish that of the breasts, and aathatties to promote the pe- destroy the secretion of milk, | ristaltic motion of the bowels, as is well illustrated by the case of inflammation of the uterus, which is incident to lying-in women. When the uterus, at the cessation of the menses, cea- ses to be active, or to secrete, we often find that the breasts have an action excited in them becoming slowly inflamed, and assuming a cancerous disposi- tion. The uterus and breasts seem to be glands that balance each other ; for we seldom, if ever see, find that when the womb yields the menstrual discharge, the milk is secreted avert the debility and rouse the system to vigorous action, and natural health. bones by means of. an inter- veni® body such as carti- lage, ligament, &c. Synarthrosis. _ Immoveable connexion. <A genus of connexion of, bones, in which they are tnited to- gether by an immoveable union. It has three spe- nS ES! and ‘gomphosis Synchondrosis. A species time of a woman’s nursing,| bone is united with another that the periodical shows are| by means of ‘an intervening, regular or perfect, neither do| cartilage ; ‘as the vertebra, we ever find the breasts and} and the bones of the ye uterus both inflamed at once.| _ bes. a a4 —a*, “*