The mineral springs of England, and their curative efficacy : with remarks on bathing, and on artificial mineral waters / Edwin Lee.

Date:
1841
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    of blood may occasionally be of service in re- lieving the congestion, its too frequent repeti- tion predisposes to relapses, which are best pre- vented, and a cure most permanently effected, by tonic remedies and local stimulants, which strengthen the system generally, and excite the torpid and relaxed vessels to action. Chilblain is another illustration of the same principle; congestion taking place in parts of the body re- mote from the centre of circulation, when their nervous energy has been depressed by cold. Dropsical effusions also very frequently occur in the same manner, the serum of the blood transuding through the capillaries into parts where the cellular texture is lax, and whence the blood meets with obstacles in returning to the heart. Softening of the nervous centres, and paralysis, doubtless occur not unfrequently from the same cause, viz. deficiency of nutrition of their substance, from the nervous energy of the capil- laires being impaired, as is pretty evident by these diseases most generally occurring in elderly per- sons, and those in whom the vital powers have become depressed. I have met with several cases of paralysis consequent upon excesses, from the influence of malaria, &c., or occurring idiopathically, in which the too indiscriminate