A treatise on pathological anatomy / By G. Andral. ... Translated from the French by Richard Townsend ... and William West.

  • Andral, G. (Gabriel), 1797-1876.
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1829-1831
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    of one or more organs; for, on examination of the body after death, we often find none; or else perhaps, we observe congestions resembling those found in a thousand other cases without producing any similar effects. What is it, then, I repeat? A vitiation of the blood by the com- mixture of deleterious substances; next, in con- sequence of such vitiation, an alteration of the functions of the nervous system ; and lastly, the blood that supports the organs, and the nervous system that animates them, having suffered a general injury, a constant, though not always appreciable modification of these organs in their functions or in their texture. To conclude, diseases resembling many of the preceding, whether in their symptoms, or in the appearances discovered after death, not unfrequently occur in cases in which no delete- rious substance has been introduced into the blood, and in which there is no direct proof that any alteration of that fluid has been the primary cause of the morbid phenomena. If, however, .these phenomena are perfectly identi- cal with those evidently produced by vitiated blood, if, on examining the body we cannot detect here any more than in the preceding cases any constant lesion in the solids, and if we always observe a certain number of fundamental symp- toms whether these lesions exist or not, what is