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PERSPIRATION (Lat. per, through, and spirare, to breathe)

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Lat. per, through, and spirare, to breathe) , the See also:

EXCRETION (Lat. ex, out of, cernere, cretum, to separate)

excretion of sweat from the sweat-glands of the skin. Sweat is a clear colourless neutral or slightly alkaline fluid containing 2% of solids. Under pathological conditions, See also:

SUGAR

sugar See also:

UREA, or CARBAMIDE, CO(NH2)2

urea and other substances are found. The secretion of sweat is constantly going on, the activity of the sweat-glands being under See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the central See also:

NERVOUS

nervous See also:

SYSTEM

system. The only See also:

FUNCTION

function of sweat is the regulation of the See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge from the See also:

BODY

body. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief morbid conditions of the sweat-glands are excessive sweating (Hyperidrosis) and foetid sweating (Bromidrosis). Excessive sweating is a symptom observed in various diseases, such as See also:

TUBERCULOSIS

tuberculosis and rheumatic See also:

FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever, but it may exist apart from such conditions, and either be See also:

general, affecting the whole body, or confined to a See also:

PART

part, such as the axillae, See also:

head, hands, feet, or, as in some rare instances, the one See also:

HALF

half of the body. Excessive perspiration may often he prevented by the See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

bath, and by tonics, such as See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron, See also:

QUININE

quinine, strychnia, &c. Locally, the use of astringent lotions of See also:

VINEGAR

vinegar or a weak See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of See also:

lead will also be of service. Foetid sweating most frequently affects the feet, specially in those who have much fatigue, and is apparently due to rapid decomposition in the perspiration which has saturated the stockings; these should be frequently changed and the feet washed several times a See also:

day, dried carefully, and dusted with some antiseptic See also:

POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder.

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