GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 19 



Q. Is disease confined at first to one texture of an 

 organ? 



A. Yes; an organ is seldom attacked at first in all its 

 tissues. 



Q. What governs sympathies? 



J2. Principally similarity of texture. 



Q. Is fever severest in serous or mucous disease? 



#. In diseases of the serous tissues. 



Q. How many sets of symptoms are there in inflam- 

 mation? 



ft. Two ; those of the texture, and those of the organ. 



Q. What influence has texture on the general pheno- 

 mena of disease? 



Ji. It modifies symptoms and duration of disease. 



Q. Be more explicit in your answer. 



Jl. The different textures in disease give different kinds 

 of pain, different degrees of heat, and have a longer or 

 shorter duration. Hence acute and chronic diseases are 

 relative to the vital properties of the textures; as for in- 

 stance, a serous texture goes through a disease sooner than 

 an osseous tissue. 



Q. Why are the mucous, serous, and glandular tissues, 

 so much oftener diseased than others? 



Jl. Because their functions require great energy in the 

 organic sensibility and insensible organic contractility, 

 and consequently liability to alterations of these, or in 

 other words disease. 



Q. What is the correct nosological method? 



. That of the diseases which affect the several tissues. 



