This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...to the acrid sharp substances of the false diet. In such a manner a person may accumulate in himself a considerable quantity of sharp and poisonous matter, without ever having had an inflammatory disease, in the cure of which he has necessarily been medicinally poisoned. As soon as these matters are, during a long and severe cold, released from their mucous fetters, they produce violent pains, by coming in contact with the nerves. If the organism is not vigorous enough to undertake the effort of radically eliminating the-matters, these pains continue for a long time, return frequently, and are called rheumatic pains. If, however, the organism has the strength necessary to undertake its radical cure, it carries on still more extensively the work of releasing the peccant matter by dissolving the old mucus, and does not again envelop the released foreign matters in fresh miicus, but forces great quantities of blood into that organ, in which they are in greatest quantity present. Abnormal quantities of blood are there necessary for several purposes, to wit, first, to dissolve more and more the old phlegmy mucus, to drive the released poisonous matters towards the skin, to protect the nerves and other organic structures as much as possible against the destructive power of the poisons, which are carried past them towards the skin; and second, to restore by new formations the partial destructions which still are necessarily produced in organic structures, for which purpose much blood is requisite; for blood is the material from which the vital energy creates all organic structures. From this necessity of re-formation of organic destructions, the abnormally strong re-formative disposition of the primary inflammatory disease explains itself in the simplest and clear...