A practical essay on diseases and injuries of the bladder ... the whole ... prefaced by an inquiry into the mutual influence that exists between life and organisation; including some observations on ocular spectra and the nature of mind. Being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / [Robert Bingham].

  • Bingham, Robert.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A practical essay on diseases and injuries of the bladder ... the whole ... prefaced by an inquiry into the mutual influence that exists between life and organisation; including some observations on ocular spectra and the nature of mind. Being that to which the Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for the year 1821 ... / [Robert Bingham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —— thing more than the act of separation—or a separated fluid; but when applied to the formation of the fluids peculiar to animal bodies, it must be understood as having a much more extensive signification. All the secretions are formed out of the blood, but many of them are so totally different from every thing known to exist in that fluid, that they seem to be almost new creations, consequently the pro- cess by which they are formed must have something more concerned in it than mere mechanical separation—to effect. such very great changes as take place in the formation of many of the se- cretions, there must be a chemical power concerned. Different secretions are accomplished in organs possessing different kinds of organi- gation, and every different secretion seems to have one peculiar kind of organization