This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... associated, however, with germs, but in all, structural conditions play a large part, and the axiom that normal structure is a prerequisite of normal functioning holds true in disorders of the respiratory tract, whether the symptoms of such structural disorder be grouped under the name of asthma, hay ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... associated, however, with germs, but in all, structural conditions play a large part, and the axiom that normal structure is a prerequisite of normal functioning holds true in disorders of the respiratory tract, whether the symptoms of such structural disorder be grouped under the name of asthma, hay fever, catarrh, croup, bronchitis or one of the acute infectious diseases. The essential point is to find the primary cause of the disease -- that which is interfering with the normal physiological action of the organ or part -- and to set about to correct the same, with the assurance that God made man a perfect being and if there is failure in any function there must be a cause for such failure. DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM The blood is the chief agent of transportation in the body, carrying food to and waste from the tissues. The organs necessary to maintain this transportation system comprise a propelling force, the heart; avenues of distribution, the arteries and capillaries; also channels for the re-collection and return of the blood to the heart, the veins. Many of the diseases of the body may be found associated with some alteration or defect in this transportation system. "The reign of the artery is supreme," is the way the "Old Doctor" expressed it. In the consideration of the diseases of the organs of the circulatory system, we find disorders of two kinds -- functional or organic. The heart receives nervous impulses by way of the pneumogastric nerve which tend to retard its action and from the cardiac sympathetic nerves which accelerate its action. It also has nervous ganglia within its muscular walls which are automatic in action. Variations in the rate or regularity of the heart's action indicate some abnormal nervous...
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