Excerpt from Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease: Or Self-Poisoning of the Individual Bouchard, in his auto-intoxication, clearly indicates to us that man is constantly standing, as it were, on the brink of a precipice; he is continually on the threshold of disease. Every moment of his life he runs the risk of being overpowered by poisons generated within his system. Self-poisoning is only prevented by the activity Of his excretory organs, chiefly the kidney, and by the watchfulness Of the liver, which acts the ...
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Excerpt from Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease: Or Self-Poisoning of the Individual Bouchard, in his auto-intoxication, clearly indicates to us that man is constantly standing, as it were, on the brink of a precipice; he is continually on the threshold of disease. Every moment of his life he runs the risk of being overpowered by poisons generated within his system. Self-poisoning is only prevented by the activity Of his excretory organs, chiefly the kidney, and by the watchfulness Of the liver, which acts the part of a sentinel to the materials brought to it by the portal vein from the alimentary canal. Disease is not something altogether apart from the individual. The patient and his disease are too Often found living under identical conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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