The deputy physician : a complete household guide for the preservation of health and treatment of diseases / by Robert Bell.

  • Bell, Robert
Date:
1900
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Credit: The deputy physician : a complete household guide for the preservation of health and treatment of diseases / by Robert Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    simultaneously with the treatment by iron, the disease will soon reassert itself. Anaemia is invariably connected with a highly sensitive condition of the vaso-motor nerves. 1 his is evidenced by flushing, which so. readily takes place in anaemic girls on the slightest provocation. If the tone of the arteries and arteriotes improves, this will indicate that the condition of the blood is also improving ; and therefore it is fallacious, from my point of view, to conclude that contraction of these vessels per se exerts a beneficial effect, because their tonicity is only coincident with the removal of the unhealthy con- dition of the blood. If we study the subject of anaemia and chlorosis closely, we will find that girls of a nervous tem- perament are very much more liable to this disease than those who are not so sensitive in their natures. This goes to demonstrate that the latter, in consequence of their more robust nervous apparatus, resist the disease to a great extent; but I must insist that this circumstance will never give immunity if the cause which I have pointed out obtains for an undue length of time. CHAPTER VII. The component parts of foodstuffs which go to make up the dietary of an individual contain all the elements which are necessary to supply the various constituents of the blood, as is evidenced by the rapidity with which it is recuperated after serious haemorrhages, from whatever cause. If then, in cases of anaemia or chlorosis, our attention is solely directed to the daily complete evacuation of the colon, anaemia, in the large majority of cases, would recover without the aid of any other treatment. I would not, however, for a moment aver that the recovery would be so rapid as if iron had been prescribed in addition.