Dr. Hooper's Physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic / [Robert Hooper].

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Dr. Hooper's Physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic / [Robert Hooper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the exhalation from the skin is increased by exercise or by any other cause, the urine is diminished ; when, on the other hand, as in dia- betes the quantity of the urine is increased, the skin becomes dry and harsh. I he tunctions of the lungs and skin, in like manner are closely connected. When during exercise the skin is moist, the respiration is tree; but if the skin being dry, the circulation is at the same time excited, the respiration is difficult and frequent; but the moment moisture breaks out upon the skin, the lungs are relieved as by a charm, the respiration becomes natural and easy, and the body is freed from the load which oppressed it. The pedestrian will recognize the truth of this statement. ihe quantity of water removed by the bowels being compara- irenseH ha 1 lUe effect on the other secretions ; but if in- q mm tit and P^gative, the urine is diminished in quantity, and m violent diarrhoea it is often entirely suppressed Ihe exhalation from the lungs is probably affected by7the quantity of the secretions poured out by the other organs, but as that doef S poMt aSUrement’ n° accurate statements can be made on m'ffenc^bon°niTh>e ***?■' ^ SS eUminated by thG difeent organsmaybe Unne-‘-oz., feces £oz., lungs 104oz sV.n m , , ... tssssr:^ mg as it does about eighty per cent of ft Th COutai,n organ, nor aU of them jointly, can tupDfe°ffnl>n that !10 flngle ifii i ^ ons are much embarrassed!thU PlaCS °f the lun8S’ 8e„, .S’ SrtS ‘'.S'w “mbiati“ «7- nitrogen and oxygen, with a smilf ^ ln combination with and the liver in equation with KJeTffiS*-*? mtrogen. As the carbon is similarly combin ’] /,'1 scar?e1^ay the lungs and. skin, it is easily seen how t i c 8ecretlon trom may become vicarious of those of the 1m *U,p?tlons ,°^ the skin to the lungs during exercise by free ners8’ • 1G re^e* afforded m part from the excretion ofcarfenbT’•’}tl0’ probab1/ “rises sweats m phthisis pulmonalis seem tn , ‘lc?d- , 1 le colllquative i hat the functions of the liver and I., P°mt 111 t le 8ame direction, the slightest acquaintance with the S® T3,' closel->r connected, that the one may lie vicariou 0f the T8 1,0SC <*«*« shows : size of the liver in the fetus 0tIl,er .ls, shown hy the large I he essential constituents of the nn’^T Wlth lts “ze.in the adult, tain carbon in considerable quantity and lithic acici) con- quantity. l he formation of these sub-