The first are usually called true secretions, or secretions proper, while the second are called excretions.
The secretions of many glands are known to contain substances that are not found in the blood, or, if present, are there in exceedingly small amounts.
Pains in the small of the back, an increase in the secretions of the kidneys, and a sediment in the urine very naturally suggest some disorder of the kidneys.
To the first class belong all the secretions that serve some purpose in the body, while the second includes all those liquids that are separated as waste from the blood.
It is excreted by all the secretions and excretions of the body.
While some of these "guest" insects produce secretions that furnish the ants with food, some seem to be useless inmates of the nest, obtaining food from the ants and giving nothing in return.
The secretions from the individual salivary glands have their own special characteristics, and these are not the same in all animals.
Some of this becomes dissolved in the alkaline secretions of the mouth, and is swallowed by the saliva, thus finding its way to the stomach.
The tears, the bronchial secretion, and the intestinal secretions are also augmented; there are generally headache and a frequent desire to pass water; the pulse is much quickened, and the temperature falls from 1 deg.
It seems probable that the reason of its being detected so readily in all the secretions is the minute quantity which can be discovered by spectroscopic analysis.
The pulse is slow, and all secretions are diminished.
The uterus is also excited to strong contraction by nicotine; the secretions of the bile and saliva are increased.
To allure and attract them to visit the flower the odoriferous secretions and gay colours are developed, and the position and complicated structure of the parts of the flower are adapted to the perfect performance of the process.
It is transmitted by the saliva and the discharges from the vesicles, though all the secretions and excretions are doubtless infective, as well as all articles and places soiled by them.
For instance, under the same stimulation, one may run and another may fight, depending perhaps on the secretions that the ductless glands empty into the blood.
In the female, the internal secretions or vital energy does not become chemicalized as in the male, but is directed to wrong channels or is dissipated by radiation.
It is claimed that a great chemist took the various secretionsfrom a subject that had been intensely angry for hours and succeeded in removing from the various secretions more than a score of poisons.
Nature has wisely provided for the escape of all surplus secretions from the various glands of the sexual system.
In certain cases, these advantages are obvious, as for example in many glands of which the secretions are made up of cast-off cells.
Promote the secretions and excretions in the manner already referred to under the head of Puerperal Fever; this will relieve the stricture of the surface.
It appears to serve as a reservoir for the blood that may be designed for the secretions of bile in the liver.
It is sometimes necessary to evacuate the fluid by puncturing the abdomen; but this will seldom avail much unless the general health is improved, and the suppressed secretions restored.
Restore the suppressed evacuations, or the secretions and excretions, if they are obstructed.
If the secretions are vitiated, or in a morbid state, then regulate them by the means laid down in this work.
If they do threaten to cave in, the best way we know of to give them an outward direction is, to promote the healthy secretions and excretions by a well-regulated diet, and to stimulate the digestive organs to healthy action.
Fear adds to the waste matter of fatigue little driblets of adrenalin and other secretions which must somehow be eliminated before equilibrium is reestablished.
What is true of stomach secretions is equally true of stomach contractions.
Constant over-production of thesesecretions through chronic states of worry is responsible for many a distressing symptom.
The lining of the intestines has plenty of secretions to take care of its function.
As these are the secretions which play the largest part in the digestive processes, they lead us naturally to our next heading.
We have already seen how quickly emotion affects all secretions and how easily the adrenal and thyroid glands are influenced by fear.
Most graphic evidence of the disturbance of secretions by emotion is found in the response of the salivary and gastric glands to painful or pleasurable thinking.
Adrenalin and thyroid secretions are poured out as the result of emotion; digestion is stopped, circulation disturbed, and the whole apparatus thrown out of gear.
We have seen what an important role the various internal secretions, such as the adrenal and thyroid secretions play in fitting the body for flight and combat, and how large a part fear and anger have in their production.
Indigestion, palpitation, and tremors are not in themselves symbolic of the inner trouble but may be the result of an overdose of the adrenal and thyroid secretions and the other accompaniments of fear.
It is as though Nature were making a last desperate attempt to produce another life before it is too late, speeding up all the internal secretions and flashing insistent messages throughout the whole organism.
This subject gains added interest in view of the recent reports of Uhlmann as well as of Voegtlin, showing that water-soluble vitamine acts as a stimulant for the various secretions of the gastro-intestinal tract.
Whether it depends upon a lack of secretions in the gastro-intestinal tract is not known, as there has been no thorough study of this aspect of the disorder.
Allman says: "That distinct secretions are found among the Hydroida, and that even special structures are set aside for their elaboration, there cannot now be any doubt.
One of the most marked of these secretions consists of a coloured granular matter; which is contained at first in the interior of certain spherical cells, and may afterwards become discharged into the somatic fluid.
As a result too much bile is mixed with the food to be absorbed--the blood becomes tainted with biliary secretions showing itself in a yellow skin, dizziness of the head, dull, sleepy condition and lack of ambition.
On taking him out the intolerable stench will convince all persons present that his blood and secretions were exceedingly befouled and that a process of depuration is going on rapidly.
These secretions produce a peculiar acid, which in its turn breeds worms, and these, in the early stages of their existence, eat into the foreign matter and even into the mucous membrane itself, causing what is known as dysentery.
This unlocks the secretionsand prepares the stomach for food.
The colon is clogged and the acids in the stomach and the duodenum, together with an abundance of secretions from the liver, have no outlet.
The adrenal glands, whose secretions excite the combative and martial emotions, must function, and their activity, he argues, can be directed in this way.
With blood trickling down every limb of theirs, they resembled a couple of elephants with secretions trickling down their bodies.
And they began to suck also thesecretions of rotten corpses, while the Rakshasas laughed horribly and sang aloud, dragging dead bodies numbering thousands.
We know that when an animal has fever the secretions are checked, the bile may be retained and absorbed throughout the system, and yellowness of the mucous membranes follows.
The secretions of the ulcer should be washed off with antiseptic solutions and the formation of granulation tissues stimulated by antiseptic salves, such as carbolated vaseline, lead ointment, or by dressings of camphor.
Nothing can be more striking than the mutual balance maintained between the liquid secretions of the skin and kidneys during hot and cold weather.
The ear now detects a different sounds caused by the bursting of the bubbles as the air passes through the fluid, which is the exudate of inflammation and the augmented mucous secretions of the membrane.
In order to keep air from the wound and to absorb all wound secretions rapidly, a dressing should be applied.
Allow it to remain for a week or ten days if the wound is aseptic or if the dressing does not become loose or misplaced or become drenched with secretions from the wound, or if pain, fever, or loss of appetite does not develop.
For example, when fluid collects in the air passages and the air is forced through it or is caused to pass through tubes containing secretions or pus.
Under the inflammation the womb remains dilated and flaccid, and decomposition of its secretions almost always occurs, so that the inflammation tends to assume a putrid character and general septic infection is likely to occur.
The calcareous secretions of many groups of invertebrate animals consist of aragonite (calcite is also common); pearls may be specially cited as an example.
Some of the mild attacks are due to a kink in the appendix, or to some other condition which temporarily prevents the secretions of the appendix from finding their way into the large intestine.
The secretions and excretions appeared to be arrested.
The secretions of the genital canal and outlet in women are somewhat numerous.
If these glandular secretions are so valuable when administered as drugs to other persons, must they not be of far greater value when naturally secreted and poured out into the circulation in the living body?
This practice is world-wide; thus among the aborigines of Brazil, according to Martius, the urine and other excretions and secretions are potent for aphrodisiacal objects.
Adler discusses the sexual secretions in women and their significance, Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes, pp.
It is evident, therefore, that the secretionsof these ductless glands are in some degree compensatory to those of the testes.
It elaborates those internal secretions which stimulate and maintain the physical and mental characters, constituting all that is most masculine in the male animal, all that makes the man in distinction from the eunuch.
The blood and all secretions therefrom become so affected that a long time is required to eliminate the morbific matter from the system.
Great joy or grief produces secretions in the blood, which make it poisonous.
There is no pathological phenomena more freely attested than the sudden vitiation of the secretions by intense mental disturbances.
Nature has provided in the healthy vaginal secretions an antidote to infection which quickly destroys harmful germs.
If the natural secretions are altered it is difficult to restore them to their natural quality.
The drinking of warm water will increase the pulse from five to fifteen beats, and at the same time will relax the vessel walls and also increase the cutaneous secretions to a marked degree.
The large intestine is inflamed; around the fecal matter are seen glairy secretions and sometimes blood (membranous enteritis).
As the result of this contamination, the secretions become vitiated, and a general disturbance of the conditions of life is produced.
But the advantages of the internal use of water are hardly known at all because the reactions of the circulation, temperature, respiration, digestion and secretions are less noticed.
All the secretionsand functions of the body are more or less susceptible of being accelerated, retarded or modified by the psychical relations of mind and matter.
Animals and plants depend for their existence upon a nutritive fluid, which permeates their structure; it is the element from which all their secretions are formed, and their organs are nourished.
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