A treatise on pathological anatomy / by William E. Horner.

  • Horner, William E. (William Edmonds), 1793-1853.
Date:
1829
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    tions of many of the internal organs, so that they become frequently too weak to be used. The more severe the inter- nal irritation is, the more is muscular debility apparent and considerable: there are, however, some exceptions to this rule. More consequence has been attributed to this symptom of muscular debility, than it deserves; or rather it has been much mistaken, and has led to very false modes of practice in fevers, called typhus. Wherever sympathetic irritation may show itself, as it is of the same nature with the primitive irritation, it not unfrequently becomes a disease of the same character as that from which it arose. It is inflammatory, if it has come from an inflammation; haemorrhagic, if from hsemorrhagyj sub-inflammatory, if from sub-inflammation; nervous, if from a neurosis; secretory, if from an undue secretion; and nutri- tive, if from undue nutrition. Upon this is founded diathesis, or one general condition of the body, by an extension of its sympathies from a single point or place. There are, therefore, as many diatheses as there are irritations; to wit, six: the in- flammatory, the haemorrhagic, the sub-inflammatory, ner- vous, secretory, and nutritive, t So long as the sympathies are confined to the same elementary tissue in which the pri- mitive afiection occurred, the rule holds good; at least in a large majority of instances. But when other tissues parti- cipate in the afiection, the latter is modified in them by their peculiar structure and tendencies. Thus an inflammation of the skin or of the mucous membranes, will produce a sub-in- flammation of the lymphatic glands. A pustulous phlegma- sia of the skin seldom retains its character, when it affects the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels. This, however, may arise from the deficiency of epidermis on the latter, not affording a confinement to the matter. * Broussais Examen, 2, prop. 74. f Roche et Sanson, p, 66.