Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.

  • Gilbert, Henry.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    respiration is to complete the process of assimila- tion—namely, that of converting the chyle or organizable matter into blood. Important as must be this process, still the mode by which it is effected remains one of the many mysteries in which the healing art is involved. It has been supposed that the removal of carbon from the blood, during its passage through the lungs, tends to bring it into that condition which fits it for the purpose of repairing the necessary waste of the body, and maintaining the various functions in their perfect state. One fact is, however, certain— namely, that this object is effected in the lungs, yet how, or by what means, has not hitherto been ascertained. This process completed, the blood is returned to the left side of the heart, renewed in power, and charged with a fresh supply of nutriment. It is now capable of supporting life, and susceptible of conversion into bone, or any other tissue of which the body is so miraculously composed. The heart next propels it to all parts of the frame through the arteries, and where repair from the expenditure consequent on the functions of the body is re-