Organo-therapeutics in the insane

Abstract

The functional and nutritive interdependence of the organs of the body may roughly speaking he regarded a the basis of Organo-Therapeutics, or the administration in disease of the tissues or extracts of healthy animal organs. The complex human constitution in health is an organic unity. The health of any one of its organs, as the brain, may be said to depend upon three main factors; firstly, its own intrinsic 'endowments of vitality structure and function proper to the great life-periods of development maturity and decadence; secondly, its immediate nourishment by a prone blood and a proper nervous supply; and thirdly, its proper environment. Dismissing the important factors of vitality and environment, and confining our attention for a little to the factor of nutrition, we recognise the undoubted twofold aspect of the latter— the nourishment of an organ from the nervous and from the blood side.