On Slight Ailments: Their Nature and Treatment |
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... blood itself or in the tissues outside the vessels , the blood flows too slowly or too quickly through the capillaries . These tubes often become unduly distended or relaxed . Disturbed action in the adjacent nerve - fibres is thereby ...
... blood itself or in the tissues outside the vessels , the blood flows too slowly or too quickly through the capillaries . These tubes often become unduly distended or relaxed . Disturbed action in the adjacent nerve - fibres is thereby ...
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... blood which have the property of exerting a solvent action on these slightly soluble compounds . In this way their deposition may be prevented , or , if depos- ited , their resolution and reintroduction into the blood , and at last ...
... blood which have the property of exerting a solvent action on these slightly soluble compounds . In this way their deposition may be prevented , or , if depos- ited , their resolution and reintroduction into the blood , and at last ...
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... blood , also benefit the patient by washing out the tissues in their inter- stices , and interfering with the deposition of imperfectly soluble matters . Water containing alkalies or salts of vegetable acids , particularly the citrates ...
... blood , also benefit the patient by washing out the tissues in their inter- stices , and interfering with the deposition of imperfectly soluble matters . Water containing alkalies or salts of vegetable acids , particularly the citrates ...
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... blood itself , as well as by the rate at which the epithelium ( e , upon , and rienu , to place ) on its surface grows , arrives at maturity , and decays and falls off . Sometimes the epithelial cells remain intimately adherent to the ...
... blood itself , as well as by the rate at which the epithelium ( e , upon , and rienu , to place ) on its surface grows , arrives at maturity , and decays and falls off . Sometimes the epithelial cells remain intimately adherent to the ...
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... blood permitted by the sudden yielding and dilatation of the little arteries continuous with them , and the same phenomenon under certain circumstances occurs in the vessels of the tongue . The Dorsum of the Tongue . - On the dorsal ...
... blood permitted by the sudden yielding and dilatation of the little arteries continuous with them , and the same phenomenon under certain circumstances occurs in the vessels of the tongue . The Dorsum of the Tongue . - On the dorsal ...
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accumulation acid action affected afferent nerves alimentary canal altered attack become bilious bioplasm blood body Calomel capillary vessels cause cells changes chilblains circulation Cloth cold Colocynth color condition conjunctiva consequence considerable constipation cure derangement diarrhoea diet digestion discomfort disease distended distributed disturbance drachm Edition epithelium excited feel fluid frequently gastric juice give glands grains hydrochloric acid Illustrations important increased inflammation intestinal canal irritating jaundice large bowel little arteries liver living matter malady Medical medicine minute morbid mouth mucous membrane mucus muscular fibres nausea nerve-centre nerve-fibres nerves nervous occur ordinary organs ounce pain papillæ particles pass pathological patient pepsine perhaps persons phenomena pill Podophyllin Potash powder practitioner prescribed probably purgative quantity Quinine relieved remedies result rheumatism secretion sensitive serious sick headache skin slight ailments small doses sometimes soon sore stomach substances suffer surface symptoms take place temperature tion tissues tongue treatment vertigo
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