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Show Conclusion of the First Part. Conclusion (y‘t/Je Firsl Part. it in my power to quit felt that the bladder was full; but, not having have gone off. In an after time little the company, the symptoms in some r water, I found that the bladde hour or two after, on attempting to make of the urine being absorbed, contained little or none. I have not a doubt the lymphatics may remove often How essels. and carried into the blood-v always absorb it in sup- the urine from the bladder, or why they do not mon distension of the blad- uncom an know: not do I tirine, of ons pressi and make absorption then the orifices of the lymphatics, der may compress urine in the morning is brown, red- impossible. It is for this reason that our g is limpid. During dish, or high coloured, while that made soon after drinkin d, and a concentrated the nightthe tliinnerparts of the urine have been absorbe sorbed, and carried into the blood vessels, or whether the Pus 0mg ab- 10 be ascribed to the debility induced in consequenceyofrtfi enffifati-ler of long-continued sores, may be doubted. The quick pulse in limt'auon ver, appears frequently to be a symptom only of irritation3 aceoerctf'lc le- the pulse has become slow and natural, when a limb with the so ml? y. e, have bean left behind. solution of neutral salts, and putrescent mucilag ossium, I believe, is owing mollitcs the in bones The softness of the kept up this irritation, has been amputated. Iforese'e that it in reh W ‘Ch objected, that the source of absorption of pus being removed witlayh ef'e be the irritation must subside with the cause; but I have seen casest eh lml'), subsided so soon after the amputation, that I was satisfied it was th ere'" quantity from the chiefly to the lymphatics taking up the earth in too great d, which were in bones. \Ve have seen large portions of bone remove e of some tumor themselves perfectly sound, in consequence of the pressur have in this way on their surfaces,- great part of the bones of the scull itself ofthe hectic fever,- "‘ hectic fever has also been found ,to take late]: abuse there was no pus to be absorbed. Ifhectic fever always follovfed th‘erere mation of pus, absorption of this fluid might with more pro riet be s or- and irritation of the sore, and not the absorbed matter that was 1 1C Pam» been removed. ed as the cause ; but very large abscesses have been formeid wifltoutu 'spccl- ics taking In the third place, diseases arise from the lacteals atid lymphat the first of ofone opinion the is -It body.the in ed generat fluids up morbid d into a physiologists, Mr. Hunter, that when variolous matter is inserte is to stimulate wound, in the inoculation of the small-pox, all that it does, is possible, however, that pus may sometimes be absorbed and rldd t hectic fever. In cases of large abscesses in the body brdwnish por dJcc blotclics are sometimes found on the skin, both on the irunk of th- b dun and the extremities, along with hectic fever. C O V! In the fourth place, the lacteals and the lymphatics increase if tl d not produce entirely, some diseases of the solids-The lun s zire ffy 3 with scrophulous inflammation: whether the lymphatics are thge causea fe‘li'e which being ab- the surrounding parts to secrete a fluid similar to itself, receives the really patient the that and ution; constit the sorbed, infects disease froin variolous matter generated in his own body. The swelling of ion of the matter, the glands of the axilla, which are symptoms of absorpt in the inoculated certainly do not take place till the pusttile is fairly formed till after that place take ox small-p the r to peculia ms sympto the do part ; nor period. the mad It is possible that the venereal poison, and the poison of generally remain long in dog, may be absorbed in the same way; for they is commonly the part to which they were originally applied, and matter take formed on that surface before the symptoms peculiar to these diseases but place. There is one poison which is certainly generated in the body, the which must be absorbed before it can infect the constitution: I mean poison .w; 1"1 person of cancerous matter. There is another fluid the ab - ' which has been said to produce very fatal effects in the ("onstitu tidm-ptlon 0f pus. Hectic fever and pulmonary consumption have ha encdnf I lnean suppurations ; but whether these are to be attributed to dis I: l." "g6 . ‘" W *vr-‘P «TN: mT‘SQK'SEmeo-gt WW [do not know; Dr. Hunter believed, from the universal swellin :f‘tf'ts' glands immediately under the skin, in scrophulous patients that tghel ine phatics took up some noxious particles from the atmosphere Perha ‘9 as the mucus glands of the eyes, nose, mouth, and lungs, are often first af; 3‘ . . 1,151.1: a very recent :xagnple, the hectic fever entirely disappeared in less than three days . to , amputation w ich was that of the flat p) was' perforincd- the ., l‘ ' h i riod ‘ , itllllno‘ . a from a hundrel t and thirty ‘ ' to ninety‘ ' the atieiit ' ‘ well P" 5ca m slee 'in d tht at PC" tite cravtlig; but the absor prion , ‘ _ ' of pus must have l P been g ' ni of fiveP ears e aPPe‘ stlnd ' effects, it it has any, should not have gone off so soon R Y "‘3' and m fected «'33: -. x.. 4.. :- 120 |