Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 40: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; January, 1860 No one can doubt that the fluid of the blood is altered, and may be dis tempered, by unwholesomeness of diet, and by neglect of the daily excretions by the skin, bowels, and kidneys. It is also evident that these common sources of distemperature of the fluid of the blood must Operate not only in persons in health, but also in persons who may be afiicted with chronic forms of inflammation, such as are present in necrosis of bone, in diseased joints, pulmonary consumption, 650. And if, in these last mentioned ex amples, distemperaturc of the fluid of the blood from errors in diet. Or other such causes, concur with distemperature from absorption of spoiled matter from places of chronic suppuration, then there will be deuteropathy of the plasma, or disturbance of the qualities of the fluid of the blood from two points at the same time; namely, unwholesomeness of food and absorption of morbid matter. And it follows from the physiological relation subsisting between the co neeles and the fluid of the blood, that an increasing debase ment of the quztities of the fluid must at length disorder the corpuscles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.