Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton.

Date:
1791
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Credit: Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    morbid aftions of this difeafe, furnifhes ample fcope for the fite of fuch tumors* and alfo materials for the feveral coats within each other, with varied contents,^ from the centre to the circumference of them. To the morbid aftion, then, of this peculiar conftitutional malady on the ab- forbent fyftem, are we to look for the origin of thefe tumors; and from the na- ture of the compound fluid, as I prefume the lymph is, which is fecreted from the blood for the purpofes of the animal eco- nomy, are we to account for the different matters contained in them. All the feveral materials which are ne- ceffary to conflitute the different parts of the living animal muft be furnifhed from the nutriment taken into the ftomach; and what is neceffary for this important purpofe is feparated from the more fecu- lent matters, by the procelfes of digeftion and chylification; and enters the abfor- bent fyftem by the la&eals, and is carried into