Observations, with cases illustrative of a new, simple, and expeditious mode of curing rheumatism and sprains, without in the least debilitating the system / by William Balfour. M.D.

  • Balfour, William, 1780-
Date:
1816
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    ciculi and Fibrillas of both the nerves and muscles are enveloped in cellular membrane, we must mfer, that the ap- position of muscular, and the secretion of nervous substance, are performed by the capillary vessels of that membrane. If, therefore, the functions of these ves- sels are impaired, the parts they sup- ply must suffer in their turn. But mere^ disuse will produce emaciation of a limb. There is no fact in physiology better es- tablished, than that action is necessary to circulation, and circulation to nutri- tion. These are, indeed, matters of daily experience. Emaciation of the muscles must therefore be considered more as a consequence than a cause of llheumatism. In the third place. The effusions that sometimes take place into the sheaths of the tendons, is a proof that the cel- lullar membrane is principally affected in Rheumatism. I have seen effusions