A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].

  • Farr, William, 1807-1883.
Date:
1829
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    superacklition of new matter, or the operation of some chemical change, is alike inexpli- ' cable; nor do we derive any light on the j subject from the profound and accurate re- searches either of ancient or modern physio- logists. There is no anatomist, who, in tracing the course of the lacteal vessels, from their origin in the villous coat of the intes- tines to their termination in the receptacu- lum chyli, has failed to encounter, in the progress of his dissection, the direction of these vessels through one or more of the mesenteric glands. Hence, it must be ob- vious to the merest tyro in physiology, that some important operation in the chylopoietic system is accomplished by this peculiar ar- rangement. Reasoning from the fact I have just stated, may it not be inferred, that in all enlarge- ments of these glands, without the existence of that morbid alteration of structure which would necessarily render them impervious, such alteration of function exists, as, by its I action on the passing chyle, so materially changes its properties as to lay the founda- tion for struma? This materia morbi, the