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FEVER, IN ITS SOCIAIi ASPECTS. 9
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tuents are contained , can reproduce itself in that fluid , exactly in
the same manner as new yeast is produced when yeast is added to liquids containing * luten . " He also shows that similar processes
may take place in mixed g fluids , just as the fermentation of sugar is effected by the presence of yeast , without multiplication of the
yeast , if gluten be not present . When such a process takes place in the blood the resulting illness is not _eontagioLis . If the
ingredient in the blood analogous to the gluten in brewer ' s wort be exhausted or destroyed by the operation of the poison , the same disease
will not be again produced by the agency of that poison . If the ingredient be one not essential to the composition of the blood , its
occasional absence may account for the immunity some people enjoy from certain contagious diseases . . Mr . Paget seems to agree with
this view . He says : " The poison of smallpox or of scarlet fever , for lebeing once insertedsoonby multiplication or
otherwise examp affects , the whole of the blood , ; alters , its whole composition . The , diseasein a definite form and orderpursues its course , and
it finall is not y the as blood it , was recovers for now , to the all same appearance material , , its form the same er state variolous . Yet
thus poison made , will on not the produce ; blood the or same the tissues effect upon is made it , , and once the for alteration allfor ;
commonly , through all after-life , the formative process assimilates , and never deviates fromthe altered typebut reproduces materials
like exactl the y like old , those are incapable altered , by of the alteration disease . , hy The the new sam ones e poison , therefore , and ,
the individual is safe from the danger of infection . " Vaccination in is , the perhaps blood , the and most kept remarkable up afterwards instance by the of wonderful a change effected law of assi once
milation a no less , striking of , which way Mr . in Paget the scar speaks retained , and which from manifests childhood it b self y the in
stiti skin al , althoug decay and h this reformat skin ion has . been Ci But constantl , it will y be undergoing said , the rule an inter fails
in every case ( and they are not rare ) in which a disease which usually occurs but once in < the same body occurs twice or more .
— Nay -that , but after these a part are has examp been les change of that d inner by disease but not it less tends certain naturall law y
to regain a perfect state . Most often the complete return is not effectedbut sometimes it isand the part at length becomes what
it would , have been if disease , had never changed it . " The elevation of the temperature of the body in all the varieties
of fever is probably caused by temporary paralysis of the nerves metamorp in governing the quantity hosis the calibre of of tissue blood of takes carried the blood lace to - the vessels . " various Th , e and blood , organs from then , , an an becomes in undue crease
contaminated by the debris of , p the disintegrated tissues . The so morbid be productive materials of may no be injury . eliminated ; but if by there the be natural any impediment channels , and to
their excretion , they give rise to the consequences already pointed
Fever, In Its Sociaii Aspects. 9
FEVER , IN ITS _SOCIAIi ASPECTS . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/9/
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