Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore.

  • Moore, George, 1803-1880.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    unity, under one design, evolves a united product out of innumerable ingredients. It causes the quickening of a new centre of life in an invisible point of blood, traces out, so to say, a plan of vessels and organs there, forms these in exact order and proportion from the vitalized fluid permeating every part, and, advancing atom by atom, slowly builds up a con- nected, complicated, living machine, consisting of nerves, arteries, veins, absorbent-vessels, muscles, tendons, bones, glands, various membranes, and many kinds of fluid, all mutually operating as one body; and while acting thus under the law and order of their formation, maintaining the whole in health, that it may subserve the nobler and more in- scrutable being, the living soul. The minutest division of this machinery has, then, a distinct chemical constitution, a vital action, and a microscopic anatomy—an anatomy, indeed, which no eye can see, and no hand touch, but His who made it. In this invisible arrangement, each element and atom is being incessantly directed to move into its place, and having served its purpose, to give way to other atoms. Thus, every organ reproduces itself, and the power that first separated and deposited the body from the blood, continues to separate and deposit it until life ceases. A process of dissolution and renewal is always going on, under which that which was produced from the blood is restored to it in altered relationships, to be modified by other influences, to be placed in new states in other parts of the economy, or if no longer needed, to be entirely removed through one of the many outlets