Two lectures on the conditions of health and wealth educationally considered / by W.B. Hodgson.

  • Hodgson, W. B. (William Ballantyne), 1815-1880.
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1860
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    APPENDIX. No. I. p. 12. Dr. A. Combe quotes tbe following results from Chossat’s Becherches Experimentales sur VInanition. Paris, 1843, p. 82 :— “ Cbossat found that, on an average, a warm-blooded animal loses about two-fifths of its weight before it dies of hunger; and he calculated that, while the fat loses 0'933 of its total amount, the blood lost 0750, the muscular system 0'423, the organs of respiration 0’222, the hones 0’167, and the brain and spiral cord only 0'019, of their original substance.” He adds, “ The comparatively small loss which the nervous system suffers is very remarkable. Had the brain been as liable to absorption as the other tissues of the body, one day’s abstinence would have been followed by fatuity.”—Physiology of Digestion, ninth edition, 1859, p. 86., c. x. See also Life of Dr. Combe, last chapter. Dr. W. B. Carpenter says,—“ It is remarkable that the nervous centres should he (so far as is yet known) entirely destitute of them” (Lymphatics or Absorbent Vessels) Human Physiology, fifth edition, p. 111. But at present too much stress may easily he laid upon this fact, which is hut one of the many difficulties—peculiarities—of the absorbent system. No. II. p. 23. The following is the List of Names appended to the Declaration quoted in the text:— Thomas Addison, M.D., Senior Physician, and Lecturer on thePractice of Physic, Guy’s Hospital, &c. James Alderson, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow, Curator, and Lumleian Lecturer to the Royal College of Physicians. J. Moncrieff Arnott, F.R.S., Member of the Council and of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. Neil Arnott, M.D., F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, Member of the Senate of the University of London. Benjamin Guy Babington, M.D., F.R.S., Physician to Guy’s Hospital, &c. T. Graham Balfour, M.D., Surgeon, Royal Military Asylum. William Baly, M.D., Lecturer on Forensic Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, &c. Archibald Billing, M.D., F.R.S., Member of the Senate and Examiner in Medicine, University of London, &c. Golding Bird, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia Medica and Assistant Physician to. Guy’s Hospital, &c. Francis Boott, M.D., Member of the Council of University College. W. Bowman, F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at King’s College, ftc.