First lines of the practice of physic Volume 3 - Softcover

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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. 1791 edition. Excerpt: ... first place, obvious, that the operation of some of those cauies depends entirely upon an idiosyncrasy in the persons upon whom they operate; which, however, I cannot pretend to explain. But, in the next place, with respect to the greater part of the other causes, their effects seem to depend uponla temperament which is in one degree or other in com mon mon to many persons. This temperament seems to consist in a great degree of sensibility and mobility, ariling from a state of debility, sometimes depending upon original conformation, and sometimes produced by accidental occurrences in the courie of life. 1185. The second set of the remote causes of syncope (1174.), or those acting directly upon the heart itself, are certain organic affections of the heart itself, or of the parts immediately connected with it, particularly the great vessels which pour blood into, or immediately receive it from, the cavities of the heart. Thus a dilatation or aneurism of the heart, a polypus in its cavities, abscesses or ulcerations in its substance, a close adherence of the pericardium to the surface of the heart, aneurisms of the great vessels near to the heart, polypus in these, and ossifications in these or or in the valves of the heart, are one or other of them conditions which, upon dissection, have been discovered in those persons who had before laboured under frer quent syncope. 1186. It is obvious, that these conditions are all of them, either such as may, upon occasion, disturb the free and regular influx into, or the free egress of the blood from, the cavities of the heart; or such as. may otherwise disturb its regular action, by sometimes interrupting it, or sometimes exciting it to more violent and convulsive action. The latter is what is named the...

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