On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections in connection with derangement of the assimilating functions.

  • Rigby, Edward, 1804-1860.
Date:
1844
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Credit: On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections in connection with derangement of the assimilating functions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cess, and which in its turn influences every structure and tissue of the body, by supplying the organs of se- cretion with those elements which the peculiar nature and purposes for which these parts are designed, demand. Hence we may divide this great process under two heads—primary and secondary assimilation-, the first, consisting of those changes which the food undergoes during its conversion into blood; the second, of those ultimate processes by which certain portions of the blood are converted into organic tissue and again re- moved from the system. The first comprises digestion, chylification, and sanguification; the second, the con- version of the elements which form the blood-corpuscles into the primary structure of cell life, on which not only the integrity, and growth, and developement ot the whole frame essentially depends, but also the great processes of secretion and absorption. The all-pervading influence of assimilation upon the system not only shows its importance, but displays also the wide extent of injury which must result from such a process being performed in an imperfect 01 faulty manner. There are no organs, however remote, which may not be deranged in consequence; no tissues, how - ever dissimilar, which may not suffer. In the numerous and varied affections arising from