A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836.
Date:
1829
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    portance. I shall point out in the first place the occa- sional causes, for they seem to rne fitted to shed a great deal of light on the proximate cause: I shall then pro- ceed to the examination of the latter, both in itself con- sidered, and in its relations to the scrofulous disease. CHAPTER I. General considerations on the lymphatic system, intended to serve as an introduction to the pathogeny of the scrofulous disease. As the scrofulous disease has its seat in the lymphatic system, it becomes indispensable to obtain precise ideas of the structure and functions of that system. It seems to me to be, in general, regarded under a point of view entirely too limited. To call it by the single name of absorbent system is to place us under the necessity of attributing to it only the faculty of ab- sorbing, though it has many other uses. It is composed of three orders of organs. 1. Absorbent vessels, properly so called: an assem- blage of a multitude of small, delicate, transparent, un- even vessels provided with valves, arising by innumera- ble radicles from the external and internal surfaces of the skin, from the membranes, the cellular tissue, &c. They are distributed among all the organs, like the arterial vessels of which they are the terminations, and terminate mostly in the thoracic duct; I say mostly, for there are some that communicate directly with the blood vessels. Some anatomists distinguish the lacteal from the lym-