Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew, in Path-head.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nation, and not the external temperature of the air, the blood of a healthy per- fon being as warm, if not wanner, in Winter than it is in Summer. These two motions are the progref- live motion of the blood along the vef- fels; and, the inteftine motion of its parts among themfelves. Now it is certain, that whatever unbraces and enervates the folids, mud retard the progreffive motion of the blood ; in proportion as its progrefs is retarded it will have both greater difpofition and opportunity to encreafe its interline motion, and fo to degenerate from an animal into a putrid tendency and difiblved Hate; and as putrefaction is a fpecies of fermentation, or of inteftine motion, changing the nature of fuch fluids as are capable of undergoing a change of their natures and qualities, fo the animal fluids being very fufceptible of this motion and change, when per¬ mitted to fall into it by weakening their