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Excerpt from A Practical Essay on Some of the Principal Surgical Disease of India
Doctrine of debility, - The objections to the doctrine of debility seem to be the following. Why does a fai lure of small extent in the capillaries. Of a vital part strongly excite not only the larger arteries of the part affected, but those of the whole system, while. A more extensive debility of the capillaries of an external part excites less increased action in the larger arteries of that part, and often none at all in those of the sys tem in general? Why does in?ammation shift from one part to another, when we see no cause either increasing the action of the capillaries of the in?amed part, or weakening those sof the part now aff'ected? Why does in?ammation arise often in parts only sympathetically affected, and consequently far moved from the Offend ing cause? Why is in?ammation so apt to spread to neighbouring parts, without any direct communication of vessels? The agency of the nervous system can alone explain this, and the effects of stimuli and sedatives on the state of the capillariesf the results of a morbidly excited state of the ganglionic nerves supplying the capillaries of the affected part, or a derangement aris ing from the unnaturally exalted condition of these nerves on which the functions of the capillaries depend.
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