Surgical observations, part the second, containing an account of the disorders of the health in general, and of the digestive organs in particular ... / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Surgical observations, part the second, containing an account of the disorders of the health in general, and of the digestive organs in particular ... / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    affecled, a Ibite of vigilance or of delirium maj be produced: convulfions and tetanus take place when the mufcular iVftem is more particularly- difordered. Though the efpecial diforder of particular organs thus gives a character and denomination to the dil'eafe, it is fufficiently evident, in every inltance,' that the whole'- Gonftitution is diftiirbed, and that parts of it are chiefly afledted, perhaps from unknown circiimfiances relative to the nervous fyflem, or it may be from a predifpofltion to difordcf Gxilling in the parts^ which are chiefly aflediedi It feems to be afcertaincd, that perfons of particular conflitutions are predifpofed to thofe febrile a^flionS of the' fan2:uiferous fvfteni, • which conflitute the inflammatory fever; that there is a propenflty to convulfions in chil- dren, and to tetanus in the inhabitants of warm climates. It may be a fit fubje(T for enquirt:, whetbef . it be poflible for particular organs to bccoiiie atfeeded otberwife, than through the medium of the nervous fyflem in general. Though, fome inflances of fvmpathy are flrange, and. ^ 2 perhaps