← Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II
Chapter 27
The Decreased Action of the Absorbent System
Ordo II.
Decreased Irritation.
Genus III.
Some decrease of heat attends these diseases, though in a less degree than those of the last genus, because the absorbent system of glands do not generate so much heat in their healthy state of action as the secerning system of glands, as explained in Class I. 1. 3.