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Among these we may reckon suppuration and gangrene, sphacelus, and some others The first class, or general diseases, may be divided into two orders; sthenic, and asthenic.— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
Among these we may reckon suppuration and gangrene, sphacelus, and some others.— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
A person laboring under a continued fever has his blood in a condition to favor sphacelus; with the slow-moving current of vitiated blood and its retention in such lax tissues as those of the prepuce, through the medium of the enlarged preputial veins, coupled with the lessened sensibilities of the bladder and his perhaps semi-conscious or unconscious condition, and an equally unconscious bladder, he is, to say the least of it, -- if in possession of a prepuce, -- also the unconscious possessor of a certain degree of percentage, no matter how small or fractional that may be, of recovering from his fever without his penis.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
17. ---- _a sphacelo. _ ---- from sphacelus.— Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
This fever is frequently accompanied with topical inflammation, which is liable, if the arterial strength is not supported, to end in sphacelus; and as mortified parts, such as sloughs of the throat, if they adhere to living parts, soon become putrid from the warmth and moisture of their situation; these fevers have been termed putrid, and have been thought to owe their cause to what is only their consequence.— Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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