On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby.

Date:
1844
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Credit: On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not being deposited by the secreting vessels, is removed again by the circulation, leaving the bone soft and flexible as in the common experiment of removing the phosphate of lime by steeping the bone in muriatic acid. A similar condition, viz. mollities ossium, is occa- sionally seen in the adult; but, as far as I know, never except in connexion with that acid state of the fluids which is known under the various titles of lithic, ar- thritic, rheumatic, or rheumatic-gouty diathesis, and arising from similar causes, viz. unhealthy food, impure air, and exposure to cold and damp. The above-mentioned effects, however, may not only be produced by a deranged state of the primary assi- milating functions, but to a certain extent from a similar condition in those of secondary assimilation. This latter state may show itself in a variety of ways. The stomach and upper bowels may not be the only cause from acid secretion, or by offering to the absorb- ents such imperfect materials for the supply of chyle as to require their speedy separation again from the blood by the kidneys and other organs, but the changes which constitute the function of secondary assi- milation, and of which we still know but little, may be at fault, and those principles which ought to have been separated from the blood in order to supply the wants