A treatise on physiology applied to pathology / By F.J.V. Broussais ... Translated from the French, by John Bell ... and R. La Roche.

  • Broussais, F. J. V. (François Joseph Victor), 1772-1838.
Date:
1826
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    tating influence of a clouded sky and marshy effluvia; man there falls into anenfeebled state: while again, the air saturated with water cannot be the bearer of the emanations from the body; whence it follows, that the cellular tissue ‘is charged with fat, and the viscera filled with blood and lymph. . Add to these agencies fre- quent morbid visceral congestions, either of the continued or in- or lymphatico-sanguine temperament, Aspe mee in the countries above described. | If we inquire into the influence’ of exercise in the large Siti we do not find it productive of more advantageous results. The most fatiguing labour, and the most substantial nourishment, cannot prevent the inhabitants from becoming blanched,lymphatie, thin, and even anemic. This is the appearance presented by a crowd of artisans and labourers of every kind, who are not deprived of good food, but work in manufactories, and shops situated on the ground floor, or in cellars, and even subterraneous places. As to those who to labours of this nature add the sufferings from want, itis evident that their constitutions will be deteriorated much more, and that not many generations will be required before they arrive at the lowest degree of weakness and anemia. Butif to these causes we add the effects of the passions, which are here much more exalted than in the country; and certain excesses in eating and drinking, which occur from time to time, (at least once a week,) contrasting with the usual sobriety; finally, the sedentary life and the trades which force so many persons to maintain a painful atti- tude,.exercising only their arms or their legs, and sometimes even having the chest or the abdomen exposed to a continual pressure: if, I say, we hold in mind all these noxious agencies, we shall con- ceive how the nervous temperament. will be associated with the two preceding ones, and how the local phenomena are produced persons with thin limbs, soft flesh, and narrow chest, who daily sink in the flower of their age, either under chronic pneumonias or gastro-enterites. These phlegmasiz, on the point of yielding, are renewed by the slightest imprudence, by the least cooling of the atmosphere; they ‘become habitual; tuberculous productions, lym- phatic degenerations of every kind, are not long in forming; death ‘eke the younger subjects before they are married: if they have “he D, 7 SLT