Lectures on Some of the Applications of Chemistry and Mechanics to Pathology and Therapeutics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

H. Bence Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330709454 ISBN 13: 9781330709450

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lectures on Some of the Applications of Chemistry and Mechanics to Pathology and Therapeutics

When a case of uncomplicated apoplexy was admitted, I pointed out how the escape of blood in the brain caused mechanical pressure; whence came altered chemical actions of nutrition and oxidation (inflammation) set up to repair the injury and to restore the brain to a healthy state.

Or, if a case of chorea from fright was in the House, I dwelt on the resemblance of the symptoms to the effect of the electric Shock, and I showed how the muscular action caused abnormal chemistry of secretion and nutrition, and some times led, even, to the stoppage of the heart.

Some of my lectures on Chemical Diseases were almost identical with some of my lectures on Animal Chemistry; and as a new edition of these has long been asked for, instead of reprinting them with the alterations which the progress of chemistry requires, I Shall endeavour to give instances of a far more extensive application of chemistry to medicine. I Shall do this by taking a few examples of errors of deficiency or of excess in the two great chemical processes of oxidation and nutrition, which, acting and reacting the one on the other, are always taking place in each particle of the human body during life. Thus, oxidation depends on the nutrition of the blood-globules, the heart, and the blood-vessels which admit of the diffusion of the oxygen and the fuel into each portion of the extravascular structures; whilst nutrition depends on oxidation not only directly but indirectly by the heat causing a relaxation of the vessels, and thus permitting an increased flow of nutritive substances to the parts.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330709454
• ISBN 13: 9781330709450
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 362