Zoonomia, Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ... not; whence it would seem to have been a different fluid from that of common perspiration. Dr. Dobson of Liverpool, has given a very ingenious explanation of the acid sweats, which he observed in a diabetic patient--he thinks part of the chyle is secreted by the skin, and afterwards undergoes an acetous fermentation.--Can the chyle get thither, but by an inverted motion of the cutaneous lymphatics? in the same manner as it is carried to the bladder, by the inverted motions of the urinary lymphatics. Medic. Observat. and Enq. London, vol. v. Are not the cold sweats in some fainting fits, and in dying people, owing to an inverted motion of the cutaneous lymphatics; for in these there can be no increased arterial or glandular action. Is the difficulty of breathing, arising from anasarca of the lungs, relieved by sweats from the head and neck; whilst that difficulty of breathing, which arises from a dropsy of the thorax, or pericardium, is never attended with these sweats of the head? and thence can these diseases be distinguished from each other? Do the periodic returns of nocturnal asthma rise from a temporary dropsy of the lungs, collected during their more torpid state in sound sleep, and then re-absorbed by the vehement efforts of the disordered organs of respiration, and carried off by the copious sweats about the head and neck? More extensive and accurate dissections of the lymphatic system are wanting to enable us to unravel these knots of science. VII. Translations of Mailer, of Chyk, of Milk, of Urine. Operation of purging Drugs applied externally. 1. The translations of matter from one part of the body to another, can only receive an explanation from the doctrine of the occasioned retrograde motions of some branches of the lymphatic...