Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff.

  • Wolff, Abraham, 1819-1892.
Date:
1872
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    and the destructive overcomes the assimilative action, disease ensues, that may result in the death of a texture, of an organ, or of the individual. A consideration of the manner in which death usually occurs shows, that it may be roughly divided into three modes. 1. Natural Death.—When the different organs of the body have gradually and synchronously lost the power of continuing their functions, and death re- sults, from what is graphically described as Natural Decay. 2. Premature Death.—When some organ essen- tial to life takes on an action of disintegration, and death ensues as a consequence,the other organs being healthy, as when—e.g., a kidney, heart, or liver be- comes the seat of organic disease. 3. Accidental Death.—In this class would be comprised the diseases we are about to consider. All the organs being healthy, and during the perfect performance of their functions, some cause external, and in a measure accidental, causes them to take on an action that is an interruption of their natural healthy functions, that disturbs the harmo- nious balance of waste and repair of the tissues— that causes these tissues to take on an action that we recognise as a form of inflammation—that leads to their disintegration, and may result in their death. Whenever it has been possible to trace zymotic disease to its commencement we shall find such