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Show 126 Conclusion (ft/M First Part. inoculated for the small pox, and on the fifth or sixth day, when it was evident the infection had taken, the infected spot was cut out, the patient had no eruption till some time after from a fresh inoculation. Even after the poison has entered the absorbent vessels, the remedy may sometimes be made to pass through the same vessels, and its natural effects on the constitu- tion may thus be prevented: in the cure of the venereal disease, we rub mer- PART II. curial ointment, the antidote, on the inside of the thigh, and parts of generation; because we know that, in entering the blood, it must pass through the same glands of the groin, through which the poison passed. Sometimes the presence of one infectious matter will prevent, for a time, the agency of another one in the cellular membrane: a very curious instance of this I met with ten years ago. Elizabeth Inwood, two years and a half old, I inoculated for the small pox; the mother was poor, andlived out of town; I was askcdin passing: I said I would Call that (lay CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SITUATION AND NUMBER OF THE ABSORBENT GLANDS, week; I was prevented, and on the ninth day found her very ill, but the punctures I had made in the arm were invisible; I, of course, after this, called every day to enquire into the cause of this strange appear- ance. She had inflamed eyes, sneezing, redness in the surface of the skin, and other symptoms of measles ;--it was the measles-These went through their usual course, and fourteen days after, when the constitution was getting free from this infection, the punctures I had formerly made in the arm began to inflame, and eight days after the small pox appeared. Sometimes AND OF THE PARTICULAR DISTRIBUTION OF THE ABSORBINC VESSELS THEMSELVES, IN THE HUMAN BODY. these vessels take up poisons which produce universally incurable diseas s, as we see in cancerous matter, when it has affected those parts which are out of the reach of surgery: sometimes, as I have said, they destroy a vi- tal part, and the same vessels, which are of so much utility in preserving the body at one time, are also frequently instrumental in destroying it. There are no general laws, however excellent in themselves, that are not productive of some apparent evil. It is by means ofthose very properties which enable them to take up chyle and lymph,and the most powerful reme- dies, that they take up infectious matter. It must also be remembered, that the human species were not intended to live for ever; and that death is not an evil, Nature has not only provided for our existence and duration for a pertain period, but also for our dissolution. PART us" a ""1: L |
