Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England.

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[1830]
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    diumof communication between the great venous and arterial trunks. Upon the peculiar condition of the cutaneous capillaries depends that concatenation of morbid phaenomena, called Fever. When the balance of the internal capillary circulation ])reponderates over the external,* and Dro;>sy or Diabetes ensues, the cutaneous sur- face is found preternaturally dry ; the internal vessels having an undue share of w^ork thrown upon them from the deticient activity of the ex- ternal, the secretions which are eliminated from the internal vessels become morbidly changed in quantity or quality. It is most probable that this congested or di- lated state of the renal capillaries always holds whenever a calculous diathesis is about to be established ; and 1 am inclined to believe that the difference of the morbid fluids secreted by analogous vessels in calculus and diabetes, de- pends solely upon the different constitution of the individual affected with those diseases The advantage of preserving the full activity of the circulation of blood upon the surface of the body as a preventive against calculous diseases, is re- * For an ingenious and accurate view of the external and internal circulation, see an Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of organic and animal Life, by my friend Dr. Holland, of Man- Chester, 8vo. Edin. 1829.