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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    principle, viz. gelatin, which forms so large a portion of the solid parts of the body, such as tendon, ligament, cartilage, hone, and existing nearly pure in the skin or dermoid tissue. In its composition it closely resem- bles that of albumen, with the exception that it contains 4 or 5 per cent, less carbon, which being therefore disengaged in the extreme vessels at the moment of transition from albumen to gelatin, unites with the oxy- gen of the blood to form carbonic acid, and appears to play an important part in the production of animal heat. Where more of the albuminous or gelatinous prin- ciples have been supplied than the wants of the system demand, or where from some defective action in the process of secondary assimilation, of the nature of which we still know but little, these principles are not duly appropriated, they are returned by the circulation, and thrown off by the various emunctories of the body, either but little changed, as in the form of serum, or assuming a very different arrangement of their compo- nent parts. It is to the invaluable researches of Dr. Prout that we are enabled to trace the metamorphoses of these principles, especially when exposed to the disorganizing action of the kidneys and converted into the elements