An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / By Peter Irving.

  • Peter Irving
Date:
1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / By Peter Irving. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the extreme veffels, ina great meafure_indepen- dent of any ;vis a tergo. This being allowed, it will iy appear that cold applied to the furface.of the body, debilitating thefe veffels, muft diminifh their power of circulating their contents ; 1n confequence of which the quantity pafling through themyywill be leffened, and a {maller difcharge of per fpiration induced; the fluids not find- ing the ufual outlet at the fkin, a: - determination will naturally take place tothe lungs, where, there i is a large extent of furface from which, they may be dif- charged. At the fame time, i confequence of the di- minifhed girculation j in the extreme arteries, an accu- mulation will take place i 1D the larger. yeflels, which, proving a ftimulus to them, and inereafing, their ac- tion, will induce the train of febrile LUMA with which catarrh i is attended. vas : Every thing that obtira Gx. the perfpiration ia any sih'tarkle degree, produces a fimilar determination. Hence the remarkable confent.. which. fubfitts, .be- tween the, lungs and furface, ya diminithed excretion from. one being, fucceeded by. an increafed difcharge from, the) other; and,.on this principle, it will, fol+ low, that in affeGtions.of the lungs, or membrane itty vefling them, which arife from) an increafed’ flow: of fluid, a determination to the furface is. one of the moft efficacious and moft naturalyremedies. D tion ! nn vidsdota + The
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