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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    as we have often observed it to happen in regard to pus. Such, doubtless, is the mechanism in most cases of met- astasis, and the reason why they are so often finally arrested in the glands. 2. Preparation and assimilation of the nutritive fluids. The use of the lymphatic system is not merely to give passage to those molecules which are destined to con- stitute part of our organs ; or in other words, it is not a simple passive highway, open to all those principles that are proceeding to enter into the great circulation. It is really in this system that the organic molecules intro- duced into the body begin to lose their heterogeneous qualities and to approximate towards the character of animal matter; it is here they take the first step from the physical to the vital world, a species of preparation which disposes them to be clothed with the properties of the blood which they are destined to renew. We have already said enough to show how great an influence is exercised by the lymphatic system on the material composition of the body, and on the condition of its forces ; as well as partially to exhibit the changes which lesions of this same system must effect in the economy. 1. Sanguification is essentially connected with the state of the absorbent system. I would say it follows all its alterations, all its vicissitudes. 2. The same system effects nutrition, whether by collecting the nutritive principles and impressing on them the first character of animalization, by preventing the accumulation of the lymph, or by eliminating from the body whatever might become hurtful by too long a sojourn. Thus then, the absorbent system occasions emaciation, atrophy, the excessive development of our