Observations on some of the general principles and on the particular nature and treatment of the different species of inflammation : being, with additions, the subject of an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. H. James.

  • James, J. H.
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1821
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    blood. by th™mi- ^he minute vessels which will enable them to and their ' perforiTi the necessary curative processes: they state depends J i J fiir'sfoniach can only obey the demand to send more blood, The efforts of which, 98 It cannot be rightly and usefully employed, wa?ds%,air i'^creases the mischief. But if by a])propriate Sle 's^dug means or medicines, we can relieve this disordered state of the stomach, the disposition to healthy action in the minute vessels is imparted,—the call for blood subsides,—the action of the vascular system abates; in other words, the inflammation recedes and the fever ceases. . There is no case of disorder in which the stomach is not aiFected; but these observations are, of course, intended to apply where that affection ex- erts a particular influence. Similar remarks will apply to the other parts of the digestive system ; and the profession and the world are under the greatest obligations to Mr. Abernethy, for dis- closing to them, in the most convincing and im- pressive manner, the truth, which so long lay con- cealed (or rather, I should say, unheeded), that health and strength spring from a right performance of the chylo-poietic functions; and that weak- ness and disease depend upon their disorder and derangement. To his works I may refer with confidence for that accurate and important infor- mation respecting this subject, which will be the best guide to a surgeon in the practical part of his duty.
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