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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    neither of which is there, in many of these cases, the smallest ground of suspicion. (CCII.) ' | To these a priori arguments may be added the conclusive one, that the regurgitation of the blood from the systole of the vena cava inferior, on which the whole objection depends, can not pos- sibly, in these instances, have extended to the superficial brachial veins, not only on account of the natural valves, but from the total interruption of the stream of blood, by means of the ligature interposed between the orifice in the cephalic vein, and the vena cava.* (CCIII.) These facts prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, that in certain stages of inflammation, * If, in this case, the different operations of the systole and diastole of the heart on the blood are distinctly per- ceivable in that of a vein so remote, in the course of circu- lation, from the heart j who can reasonably doubt, that the power of that organ is always adequate to the gentle flow of venous blood, which takes place in the common states of health and rest ? Were there a propulsory a6tion of the capillaries and veins, essential to the process of healthy sanguineous circulation, we might reasonably conclude that such action would be, if