The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison].

  • Addison, William, 1802-1881
Date:
1843-1845
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Credit: The actual process of nutrition in the living structure demonstrated by the microscope; and the renewal of the tissues and secretions, with the phenomena and products of inflammation, illustrated and established / [William Addison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    classified meaning. This I have endeavoured to do in the Synoptical Table, No. 4, which has been con- structed in accordance with the theory of nutrition and inflammation, which I believe not only to be true, but to be susceptible of demonstration and proof by an experimental investigation. The following is an explanation of this Table, No. 4 :—- The Blood-fluid, distilling from the capillary tufts of the Malpighian bodies, holding in solution the matter of the disintegrated epithelium of the uriniferous tubes, ureters, bladder, and urethra, forms the urine. Infiltrated into the intercellular spaces, tissues, and cavities, and variously modified by the soluble matter derived from cell-transformations, forms dropsical-fluids- The Red-cells are transformed into colourless ones. (This I believe to be true, but have hitherto been unable to prove it.) The Colourless-cells present endless appearances, according to the circumstances in which they are placed, and the period of their growth or development. In normal nutrition they form lymph, mucus, and fibrous textures, epithelial- cells, and secretions. In inflammation they form pus-cells and sundry abnormal products. The Plastic-element, from the interior of cells, may be mucus-like or variously altered by the pre- sence of fibrillated fibrinous filaments, by aggre- gated masses of molecules, granules, &c., or by being mingled with entire but altered cells.