A brief and intelligible view of the nature, origin, and cure of tubercular or scrofulous disease, illustrated by numerous cases : including, also, a manual for the application of electro-magnetism in this disorder / by John Fondey.

  • Fondey, John.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A brief and intelligible view of the nature, origin, and cure of tubercular or scrofulous disease, illustrated by numerous cases : including, also, a manual for the application of electro-magnetism in this disorder / by John Fondey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those irritations which occur in tubercular disorder. Great alterations take place in other organs and textures of the body, when affected with inflammation; the character of their natural products is essentially and remarkably changed; it is not strange if the lymphatic or absorbent glandular system which is so vitally concerned in carrying on the nutritive pro- cesses of the system, should, when in a state of disease, have its products so essentially and wonderfully modified and altered, as to assume a character widely differing from that of other pro- ducts of irritation and inflammation. When speaking of the effeet produced on the chyle during its passage through the lymphatic vessels, we pointed out the influence exerted by the vital energies of the part in the production of changes which caused the lymphatic fluid to bear a close resemblance to the blood; it cannot be regarded as strange if, in a state of disease, instead of such an alteration as that just men- tioned being witnessed, such as tubercular disease exhibits, Bhould be manifested; and that a variety of products which have been by physicians regarded as the result of a special deposit, should be substituted for those which, in a state of health, were usually afforded. In our next chapter we shall still further unfold this subject