Transactions of the session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy Volume 54 - Tapa blanda

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. 1899 Excerpt: ...the chemistry of man. The combustion of air in the lungs, the oxygen coming in contact with the blood and giving it its garnet hue, has a touch of mystery about it known only to nature, or that invisible hand that paints the rose. The circulation of the blood, as it rushes to every part of the body and slows up at the surfaces, and then flows back to the heart and lungs to be renewed and reinforced with nutriment from the secretions, and starts again on its endless round carrying to every tissue and substance of the body some specific cell like its own to nourish and renew, has a sleight-of-hand performance never yet seen through. The saying that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" has a new meaning to the physician; for the more he knows about the construction and function of the human system the less he wonders, but more fully realizes how fearfully easy it gets out of order. Malnutrition is a disturbance of that equilibrium of forces nature is for ever trying to preserve; it is a disarrangement of that delicate balance which, when perfectly poised, means good health. The human system is, in its normal condition, a perfect chemical laboratory; a failure in any particular affects the whole chemical composition. The assimilation and elimination, the secretion and excretion, must maintain their poise, or nature soon loses the balance of power. It is not only necessary that the system be nourished in every particular, but it must be kept clean, or like an unswept house the cobwebs of melancholia soon settle in the brain, and the dust of asthenopia is in the eye, while the coarser debris is dumped into the liver or left to unnaturally swell the adipose tissue. This is what is so often termed the Cal. carb subject (fair, fat, and flabby). He has n...