On diseases which affect corresponding parts of the body in a symmetrical manner / by William Budd.

  • Budd, William, 1811-1880.
Date:
1842
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Credit: On diseases which affect corresponding parts of the body in a symmetrical manner / by William Budd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hand, on fault originating in the solids affected, is sufficiently clear from the known circumstances of their origin, and is further attested by analogy of the strictest kind, and from very various sources ; as has already in part been shown, and will more fully and distinctly appear in the further develop- ment of this question. Relying, therefore, for the present, on the suffi- ciency of these considerations to sanction the pro- position,—that the diseases here treated of, depend on the presence of morbid matters in the blood, I shall now proceed one step further, and endeavour to show, that, in any given case, the special morbid matter which belongs to the particular disease, that may be the object of regard, is accumulated in the seat of each individual lesion, and is there held in union or affinity with the tissue affected; and that this is, in fact, the primary and essential condition of such lesion. This second proposition may seem to some an obvious consequence of the first, but on mature reflection, I have thought it necessary to bring additional evidence in its support. Such evidence may be drawn from various sources, and especially from analogy, which furnishes it in great abundance, and of decisive authority in the numerous facts lately ascertained regarding the ac- tion of those medicines which take effect after absorption into the blood. These facts are strictly analogous to those which form the subject of this paper; in so far that they