Observations on spasm of the canals for the food, bile, and urine / [Alexander Monro].

  • Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859.
Date:
1826
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    To the spasmodic contraction of the latter description of muscles, of which little or no mention has been made by Sauvages, Cullen, or by that very learned and voluminous author Dr Mason Good, it is my intention to limit the attention of the reader, and the prescribed limits of this paper do not permit me to indulge in so wide a range, as to consider the spasmodic affections of all the involuntary muscles, but only those proper to the pas¬ sages for the food, the bile, and the urine. In discussing this subject, which must be admitted to be of peculiar interest in an anatomical, physiological, and pathological point of view, it is proposed to endeavour to discover the source from which this unnatural contraction of the muscles proceeds, to trace its progress and consequences, taking, at the same time, notice of its effects in occasioning a derangement in the functions of the part more immediately affected, and also in deranging those of the animal economy at large. Such inquiries are essential to our present purpose, as indi¬ cating the means best calculated to remove the cause of the symptoms, and of all the mischief. Before advancing to my more immediate object, it seems necessary to animadvert upon the peculiar distribution and mode of action of the muscles which bring about such a morbid contraction of the muscles proper to the passages for the food, the bile, and the urine, concerning the existence of which anatomists of the highest distinction are not agreed. For instance, the existence Vogel, G. clxxxii. Cull. Nosol. G. xlvi. Sauv., idem, sp. 1. Sennert., Sauv. et aliis Journ. de Med. Avril 1764, p. 336. Sauv., ibid. sp. 2. 1 laner, Dissertatio de Spasmo seu Convulsione ejusque causis, in 4to« Tubin- gae 1790. Andreae, Dissertatio de Constitution^ aevi nostri spasmodicoe quibusdam mo- mentis, in 4to. Erfordeae 1797. Marx, De Spasmis. Hal. 1765. Boehmer, de Spasmorum, &c. 1762, Hal. Cooke on Nervous Diseases, 2 vols. Fabricii de Spasmod., &c. Hamilton on Purgatives.