Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England.

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[1830]
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    to be conveyed consecutively to that of another, and producing there a condition of the nerves and blood vessels analogous to that which is present at the point where the primary impres- sion is received. It has been a long time inferred that external agents, or stimuli are conveyed to distant organs by two methods, the one of absorption, and the other of nervous transmission ; 1 think however by the late excellent experiments of Dr. Addison and Mr. Morgan, that although it is difficult to deny the absorption of such stimuli, still we must come to the ultimate conclusion that their action really consists in an impression made on the extremities of the nerves along the course of which the impression is actually transmitted.* This principle of the transfer of irritation from one organ principally affected to another more or less distant, and which is affected se- condarily, will lead to the explanation of the modi operandi^^ of some remarkable agents in the cure of disease ; every medical man has observed the kind of specific action which attends the application of leeches to the abdomen in in- flammation of the gastro-enteric mucous mem- * Vide an Essay on the operation of poisonous agents on the living body by J. Morgan, F. L.S. Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Thomas Addison, M.D. London 1829, Ed. Med. Surg. Jour. 1829.