The Science and practice of medicine v. 2, Volume 2C. Griffin, 1864 - 993 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
abscess acid acute affected albumen amount anæmia anasarca appears artery attack become beriberi blood body bowels brain Bright's disease bronchitis cachexia cancer cardiac cartilage cause cavity cells cerebral chest chronic colour condition congestion cord death degeneration deposit diagnosis dilatation doses dyspnoea effusion especially existence extremely exudation fatal febrile fever fibrin fluid frequently glands gout grains hæmorrhage heart hepatic hypertrophy increased indicated inflammation inflammatory insanity instances intestines irritation kidney lesion less liver lung morbid mucous membrane murmur muscles nature nerves nervous observed occur organs ounces pain paralysis paraplegia paroxysm Pathology patient peculiar pericarditis pericardium phenomena phthisis pneumonia portion pulmonary pulse quantity region remedies renal renal capsules respiration result rheumatism ribs serous skin softening sometimes sound specific gravity spinal spleen sternum stomach substance sugar surface symptoms temperature tion tissue treatment tubercle tubes tumor ulceration urea uric acid urine valves ventricle vessels
Popular passages
Page 218 - ... from parental taint. The final conclusion which Dr. Walshe arrives at, after a most careful and logical analysis of 446 cases of phthisical and nonphthisical cases, is this: — that phthisis in the adult hospital population of this country is, to a slight amount only, a disease demonstrably derived from parents; and there is no reason to believe that the law differs among the middle and higher classes of society.
Page 374 - ... exposed to debilitating causes. The physician finds the child lying on its nurse's lap, unable or unwilling to raise its head, half asleep, one moment opening its eyes, and the next closing them again with a remarkable expression of languor. The tongue is slightly white, the skin is not hot, at times the nurse remarks that it is colder than natural ; in some cases there is at times a slight and transient flush : the...
Page 421 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Page 417 - He eats not, drinks not, sleeps not, has no use Of anything, but thought ; or if he talks, 'Tis to himself, and then 'tis perfect raving : Then he defies the world, and bids it pass ; Sometimes he gnaws his lip, and curses loud The boy Octavius ; then he draws his mouth Into a scornful smile, and cries, " Take all, The world's not worth my care.
Page 78 - At a later period, as in a scrofulous gland, this may soften into a putty-like matter, "or it may dry up, leaving the mineral part as a chalky deposit, scattered through the organs. These, then, are the changes — first, the deposition of a translucent, softish, homogeneous substance; subsequently the degeneration of this into a yellowish-white opaque matter; and afterwards a softening into a so-called abscess, or drying up into a chalky mass.
Page 350 - ... questions and conversing, so that many minutes must have passed. One arm was now raised, then the other, and where they were left, there they remained; it was now a curious sight to see her, sitting up in bed, her eyes open, staring lifelessly, her arms outstretched, yet without any visible sign of animation; she was very thin and pallid, and looked like a corpse that had been propped up, and had stiffened in this attitude.
Page 431 - That in round numbers, of ten persons attacked by insanity, five recover, and five die sooner or later during the attack. Of the five who recover, not more than two remain well during the rest of their lives ; the other three sustain subsequent attacks, during which at least two...
Page 79 - ... protracted malignant disease ; slight pain or uneasiness is from time to time referred to the region of the stomach, and there is occasionally actual vomiting, which in one instance was both urgent and distressing; and it is by no means uncommon for the patient to manifest indications of disturbed cerebral circulation.
Page 79 - The leading and characteristic features of the morbid states to which I would direct attention are anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach and a peculiar change of colour of the skin occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.
Page 379 - The funeral procession forthwith advanced, and after having proceeded two or three miles, several men fell down senseless. As many as eight or nine were brought into hospital that evening, and many more on the following day. Three men died — one on the spot and two within a few hours.