332 THE EFFECTS OF ALLOTROPISM. [MEMOIR XXVII. 



less pressure on K the contents of the veins, engorgement 

 of those vessels is the result ; and this condition of 

 things is what a physician designates as congestion. 



In this manner, if we admit the existence of allotro- 

 pism in organic atoms, we can give a very clear explana- 

 tion of the condition of the circulation in the patholog- 

 ical states of inflammation and congestion, and also of 

 the peculiarities which in those states belong to the con- 

 stitution of the urine. 



UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 1849. 



