Elements of pathology and therapeutics : being the outlines of a work, intended to ascertain the nature, causes, and most efficacious modes of prevention and cure, of the greater number of the diseases incidental to the human frame / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1815
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    look to the condition of the pulse in the radial arte- ries as the general evidence of the state of disease, ^ > d the chief rule of the administration of remedies. (CXXXVII.) On the other hand, the different degrees of afflux of blood to certain parts are so connected with the condition of those parts as to health, and so easily discoverable by the state of their arte- ries, that, though this state has been hitherto in a great measure overlooked and neglected, it may be considered as affording strong evidence of the existence, seat, nature, and cause of disease. (CXXXVIII.) Among the modes in which the blood in- fluences the action of the heart, we may here more directly advert to general muscular exer- cise, which, by compressing the venous system, compels the blood to pass with unusual rapidity, through the venous valves, into the right auricle; and thus stimulates the heart to contractions extraordinarily quick and forcible. I HE ►.. ' (CXXXIX.) . To these causes of increased action, namely, mental irritation and unusual fulness or impulse, E 2