Researches on Phthisis, Anatomical, Pathological and Therapeutical

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Sydenham Society, 1844 - 571 Seiten
 

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Seite 240 - At first small gray specks or elevated gray spots (glanders-nodules), varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, make their appearance (Fig.
Seite 42 - ... this statement, and I should not presume, from a limited observation, to express such an opinion, if I were not sustained, on the other hand, by authority not to be altogether disregarded. In M. Louis' work on Phthisis, published in 1825, this author declared that, not "in a single instance, had he met with tuberculous granulations, in the substance, or on the surface of the epiglottis, larynx, or trachea.
Seite 30 - ... been separated from its surface, this surface is seen studded with tufts of new vessels, which, taken together, represent a sort of villous structure as observed with a common lens. Hence, observes the author, it is not only the highly vascular web surrounding cavities, with its new circulation, that constitutes a striking feature in the anatomy of those excavations, — but, further, the terminal tufts which bring the arterial blood, derived from the aortic circulation, into contact with the...
Seite 30 - And if a portion of cavity be placed under water, after all mucous and purulent matter has been separated from its surface, this surface is seen studded with tufts of new vessels, which, taken together, represent a sort of villous structure as observed with a common lens. Hence...
Seite 437 - In the majority of persons the cough originates without appreciable cause, while they still appear in the enjoyment of perfect health ; and in a fair number of cases, one, two, three, four, five weeks or more elapse before it is attended with expectoration. The dryness of the cough and the absence of appreciable cause for its existence — conditions so rare in essential pulmonary catarrh — are, in themselves, calculated to afford motive for suspicion as to the true nature of the affection.
Seite 101 - The individual cysts vary in size from that of a hemp seed to that of a hazelnut or walnut.
Seite 233 - They varied in size from that of a filbert to that of a walnut. On section, the nodes presented a firm surface which varied in color from a grayish red to dull white.
Seite 120 - In such cases the hyperaemia usually is limited to a very small circumscribed area, forming rounded or irregular red spots, varying in size from that of a lentil to that of a farthing, and is thus called roseola.
Seite 279 - ... but he suggests that the fact might be, that several of the symptoms become somewhat more obscure during pregnancy, without any check being in reality given to the advance of the disease. My own experience would lead me to the conclusion, that if a woman predisposed to phthisis, but in whom the disease...
Seite 236 - But we must bear in mind that a disease is not characterised by one single symptom ; it consists rather of a complete series of symptoms, standing to each other in the relation of cause and effect. It is, in fact, a morbid evolution which offers a commencement, a middle...

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