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the circulating material, and entail the evolution of morbid 

 processes exactly in accordance with their respective 

 intrinsic pathogenic conditions and potentialities, neither 

 more nor less. It is needless to say that diseased con- 

 ditions, due to these stases of egestive circulation, may 

 vary from the slightest and most ephemeral to the gravest 

 and most lasting, as well as immediately fatal. 



Besides stasis and arrestment of egestive circulation we 

 necessarily have to deal with phenomena due to perversion 

 and acceleration of that circulation, and, consequently, 

 requiring for their treatment measures of an opposite 

 character, but dictated on the same lines as those appli- 

 cable to the treatment of the first mentioned, or stasis and 

 arrestment. 



The subject of acceleration and perversion of the eges- 

 tive circulation opens up a very large and much traversed 

 field, to explore which, by the light of these heterodox 

 views, time and opportunity are both necessary. We, 

 therefore, in the meantime, simply content ourselves by 

 "broaching the subject," and calling for it the attention 

 w r hich its importance requires and its clinical adaptability 

 entitles it to, letting it suffice merely to enumerate such 

 typical examples as diarrhoea and cholera, diabetes mellitus 

 et insipiduSy bronchorrhcea, rhinorrhoea, seborrhcea, and 

 hyperkeratosis, as samples of this aspect of the subject of 

 pathological egestive circulatory rate and character, and 

 diseases whose intrinsic nature may be more fully revealed 

 by inspection in subjection to such light as these views 

 can be made to afford. 



