A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker.

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the animal economy, but still more remark¬ ably upon the theory of diseases. In these pathological investigations, I have endeavoured to apply my discovery of the share the chemical or organic af¬ finities have in the functions of the liver and spleen to the better understanding of some of the other functions also, especially to that at the entrance of the other avenue of supply to the sanguiferous system, as far at least as respects the materials carried thither, and the elaboration of healthy blood which succeeds, by comparing each in their healthy and ordinary conditions with the changes produced on them in the course of disease and after death. Such of these facts as are more immediately pathological may not be further anticipated here, but some more directly connected with the experiment under consideration, and there¬ fore, with the physiological question at issue, will be admitted as a fit conclusion to this part of the subject. Previously to the narration of those facts which seem to favour the opinion that oily