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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. THE FORMATION OF MUCUS AND PUS. Office of mucous membranes?The identity of mucous globules and nascent epithelium?Self-supported growth of mucous globules?Similar to organic growth of a parasite?Is this form of life an excess or a deficiency of normal life f (First Lumleian Lecture at the College of Physicians, Lent, 1863.) The subject which I have chosen for these Lumleian Lectures is one which must be interesting to physicians above all other observers of nature, for in very few indeed of the cases ministered to by us has not either the cause of the death acted on the body through these integumentary coverings, or manifested its action by a perversion of their functions. The majority of our medicines are intended to act on mucous membrane, and all are introduced into the body through it. We cannot therefore but be grateful to those who have endeavored to add to our knowledge of its nature and habits. The term by which it is conventionally designated is apt to lead the most thoughtful of us into a fallacy. Active members of society are named after the work which is their most important occupation. The industry of the lawyer is the administration of the law; the doctor is most efficient when he is most learned; the duty of bishops and overseers is c-moiumiiv, to oversee each their several departments. But the office of mucous membrane is not to secrete mucus. It is most active when it is not doing so, and its activity is decreased just in proportion to the copiousness of the mucus. Typical health certainly consists in its absence; many robust people pass weeks without expectorating; many find their handkerchiefs clean andunrumpled after being days in their pockets, in spite of all the artificial and accidental irritants to which the Schneiderian m...
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