Volume 1

General anatomy : applied to physiology and the practice of medicine / by X. Bichet ; translated from the last French edition by Constant Coffyn, revised and corrected by George Calvert.

  • Bichet, Xavier, 1771-1802.
Date:
1824
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Credit: General anatomy : applied to physiology and the practice of medicine / by X. Bichet ; translated from the last French edition by Constant Coffyn, revised and corrected by George Calvert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others.—Consequences of this principle with respect to phenomena. —Disease can only occur in paits that are possessed of vital proper- ties.—The reason.—Progress of the physiological and physical sciences perfectly different in this respect.—General remarks on medical theories.—Difference between living solids and fluids, and such as are inert.—Vital properties exhaust themselves, those of phy- sics do not.—Consequences.—The first only are inherent in matter, the others only tenipwiary.— General remarks on the enumeration of the differences of living and inert bodies.—Particular remarks peculiar to sympathies.—Their general phenomena - xx—xxx Sect. IV.—Of Vital Properties, and their Phenomena considered with respect to Solids and Fluids,—Division of fluids into those of compo- sition and of decomposition.—Vital properties are essentially seated in the solids.—These are the seat of almost every morbid symptom.— Fluids, however, admit of being vitiated.—Different attributes of the fluids of composition and those of decomposition in diseases.—How alterations in the former may occur.—Of those of the latter.—Cases wherein solids and fluids are primitively affected.—Division of dis- eases in this respect.—This question must necessarily be considered in different lights.—What is correct in one respect, is not so in the other.—Vitality of fluids.—This vitality explained.—It is disordered by their alterations.—New proofs of these alterations.—In what man- ner fluids are assimilated and altered - - xxx—xliii Sect. V.—Of Properties independent of Life.—Properties of tissue.— Of contractility by shrinking.—By what agency called into action.— There are two different species.—Characters of each.—Their diffe- rences.—Almost all the solids admit of contraction.—A few elements of fluids also admit of it.—Phenomena attending contraction.—Con- ditions required.—Contraction during life and subsequent to death.— Difference of this kind of contractility.—General remarks xliii—li Sect. VI.—General Considerations on the Organization of Animals.— Simple systems.—Necessity of considering them abstractedly-—Their different forms.—Variety of organization.—1st; In the proper tissue —2dly; In the parts in common.—Method of ascertaining these diffe- rences.—Differences of the vital properties, and of the tissue.—Vitality peculiar to each.—This ought not to be understood in relation with organs, but only with simple systems Instances in the divers or- gans, in support of this assertion - r li—Iviii