Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The relaxation, already produced by a long continuance of beat, naturally occafions a great languor in the arteries, whereby their coats are deprived of their pmper elafticity, and the pulfations are ib much enfeebled, that the momentum of the vital fluid is greatly retarded. From this caufe, which we may fuppofe the primary one of fucceeding difeafes, oc- fioned by a duhiefs of circulation, and a Eow fulnefs of the blood's motion, which Gonfiderably diminifhes the force of the a<5ting powers in the animal fabric, every part of the human organization will undergo great and fudden changes From the want too of a regular tenfion and rigidity of the muicular fyftem we ob- ferve many undue and imperfect fecre- tions to fucceed. The ftate of the fluids, from the fame circumflances, will be im- paired, and very irregular in their different' channels j confequently, for want of that particular power, which nature in a flate of health always commands, the juices will be rendered unfit for animal ufes. Hence obftrudlions of different kinds are