On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections in connection with derangement of the assimilating functions.

  • Rigby, Edward, 1804-1860.
Date:
1844
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Credit: On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections in connection with derangement of the assimilating functions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of the system, not having been applied to this purpose, are subjected to the disorganising action of the kidneys and thus thrown off. In many cases (perhaps more frequently than otherwise) this removal by the kidneys of principles from the circulation which were destined for the process of secondary assimilation, does not re- sult from derangement in this process, but simply from a larger quantity of healthy materials having been sup- plied by the organs concerned in primary assimilation than is requisite for the growth and developement of the body, and for the general wear of the system. These observations necessarily apply in great measure to the assimilation of that albuminous principle which forms the basis of the chyle, blood, and ultimately organic tissue. This primordial and all-pervading principle becomes developed in that pulpy layer of nutritious digested matter called chyme, which adheres to the surface of the mucous membrane, either soon or immediately after it has entered the duodenum, or perhaps even before, and is evidently not furnished directly from the food but developed by the combination with azote, which appears to be supplied from the circulation. Dr. Prout ex-i presses it as his belief, “ that under ordinary circum- stances the azote [of the albumen] is principally