Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases.

  • Rushton, Frederick V.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Rushton's treatise on cod-liver oil : giving its curative properties and uses in various diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    necessary change into fibrin. Albumen does not add to the nutrient principles of the blood, and therefore when it passes into the circulation unchanged, it exists as a foreign substance, and the efforts of na- ture are called into action to throw it out, and this is precisely what we find upon examination of the lungs affected with this disease. The lungs are traversed in every di- rection by the air passages. The tracked, or wind pipe, divides into two branches, which pass one to the right, and the other to the left lung. These divide and sub- divide like the branches of a tree, each one terminating in a minute cell. The number of these cells are estimated by Weber at six hundred millions in the healthy lung; and each branch and cell is accompanied by a blood vessel carrying the blood to and firom it. The design of this arrangement is to enable the blood to discharge, through the extremely delicate