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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 577 of 653The results of our pathological and anatomical investigationsshow that the blood of ansemic individuals is deficient in red copuscles ; it contains less hsematin and fibrin, but on the otheran excess of serum.The ansemic blood is fluid, pale, the clot is small, soft, floatsa quantity of serum, its specific gravity is diminished ; the cramentum which is sometimes entirely wanting, is less dense andeasily disintegrated.Anaemia is either a primary or secondary morbid process.A constitutional anaemia depends upon certain ante-natal influences or conditions of development; its causes are either unknor not satisfactorily accounted for.It is either congenital, or inherent in the process of developmenor in the period of involution.Congenital anaemia occurs among children of sickly, debilitatedparents or of parents afflicted with anaemia, tuberculosis, consttional syphilis, carcinoma or other exhausting diseases; it occur688 Anaemia, Oligaemia.among children born before their full term, among children bomfeeble, or whose mothers were suffering with uterine diseases orhemorrhages.Ansemia inherent in the period of development either occursduring the first, less frequently during the secdhd dentition, orthe children are weaned, or in consequence of a too rapid growthor at the period of pubescence, more particularly if this periodor is unduly protracted, or if the sexual instinct is awakened prmaturely and is attended with frequent excitement of the fancyand the sexual organs (chlorosis).The ansemia of involution most commonly occurs during thecritical period of females, or during old age, or if marasmus setprematurely.Consecutive anaemia sets in simultaneously with, or in consequence of derangements the causes of which are generally knownand directly diminish the quantity and deteriorate the quality ofthe blood.The quantity of the blood is diminished by acute losses of thisfluid, such as bloodletting, hemorrhages, operations, wounds, andlikewise by frequent attacks of chronic hemorrhage.The quantity and quality of the blood are impaired by losses offluids, as in consequence of catharsis and diarrhoea, continued ofrequent vomiting, profuse suppuration, excessive or too long continued nursing, profuse blennorrhoea and perspiration, ptyalism,copious nocturnal emissions, onanism and other sexual excesses.A loss of strength, such as may arise' Irom excessive muscularexertions, long marches, running, etc., or from hard work, afterhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt