Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 22: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; July-December, 1850 In other cases, all the material which cannot escape by the natural excretory surface, or by some other in affinity with it, accumulates in the circulation sometimes to a considerable extent; and then, as all secretions are evolved from the transuded liquor sanguinis, all become more or less contaminated with this retained product, though none are sufficient to discharge it from the system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.