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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... to endeavour as far as possible to increase the general vigour of the system; to enjoin, as far as consistent with this object, the utmost protection from the inclemencies and vicissitudes of the weather; to employ iodine externally, and to push the internal use of caustic potash as far as circumstances might render allowable. I mention this last part of the treatment 180 DE. HODGKIN ON THE ABSORBENT GLANDS AND SPLEEN. in consequence of the strong commendation which Brandrish has bestowed on the use of this caustic alkali in absorbent glandular affections. The views which I have been induced to take respecting the functions of the absorbent vessels would make me the more disposed to adopt it. Shortly after the reading of this paper, I was favoured with the following communication from my friend G. O. Heming, of Kentish Town:--"Dear Sir, "You will, I am sure, be pleased with the following extract from Malpighi. Yours truly, G. O. Heming. "' In homine difficilius emergunt speaking of the granules in the spleen: si tamen ex morbo universum glandularum genus turgeat, manifestiores redduntur, aucta ipsarum magnitudine, ut in defuncts puella observavi, in qua lien globulis conspicuis racematim dispersis totus scatebat.'" BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF DR. HODGKIN. The following biographical notice of Dr. Hodgkin is taken from the 'Lancet' of April 21st, 1866. THOMAS HODGKIN, M.D. On the 5th instant, at Jaffa, whither he had gone on one of those missions of love and mercy in which he delighted, died, at the age of sixty-eight, Dr. Thomas Hodgkin. His medical brethren will feel his loss as that of a physician of rare talent; as one who was a fine scholar, an accomplished linguist, and a large-minded philanthropist. To his more immediate friends his los...