The Dictionary Of Medical And Surgical Knowledge By The Editor Of The Dictionary Of Useful Knowledge

Originally published in 1855, this comprehensive dictionary provides definitions and explanations for various medical and surgical terms and procedures. With an emphasis on clarity and accessibility, the book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a better understanding of medical terminology from the mid-19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... system, till all its oxygen or vitality is expended, when the veins, beginning where the arteries terminate, collecting all the refuse blood. take it back to the heart, to be sent again into the lungs, to be once more converted, by the breathing of the child, into arterial blood, and again and again to be distributed over the body. The Skits.--Many persons suppose that the cuticle that envelopes the bod; is a mere covering to the flesh, an envelope, in fact, merely to keep the parts compact and.in their place; this is a great mistake, and one that it behoves a mother most particularly to avoid. The skin is designed by nature to act not only as a covering to the body, but to perform the duty of a multiplicity of drains or common sewers, and carry off from the body, in the form of sensible and insensible perspiration, all the waste and poisonous moisture of the system. Besides these two purposes, the skin performs a third and even more important function in the great economy of life; it acts as an immense lung, and carries on a species of respiration analogous to that of the lungs themselves. The skin is perpetually wspiring air, and expiring moisture. So intimate, indeed, is the connection or sympathy between the skin and the lunjs. that whatever affects one influences tin1 other. This is the reason why, in all eruptive diseases, such as measles, scark't fever, small-pox, &c., the breathing is so oppressed before the rash is thrown out on the skin; and why inflammation of tte lungs is to be feared when any of these eruptions are suddenly driven from th? surface. This also is the reason why, in all cases of scalds and burns, the child or the adult suffers such difficulty of breathing; and also why cold or wet, applied to the skin, ...