Clinical studies, Issue 264, Volume 1

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Page 405 - Convulsions occur almost invariably in strong plethoric young women with their first children, more especially in such as are of a coarse thick make with short thick necks ;" and " in thirty cases which occurred during his mastership, twenty-nine were in women with their first children...
Page 356 - DR. WILLIAM W. GULL. REPORTS ON EPIDEMIC CHOLERA; its Cause and Mode of Diffusion, Morbid Anatomy, Pathology and Treatment. Drawn up at the desire of the Cholera Committee of the Royal College of Physicians.
Page 148 - The cool however, was sufficiently visible in his countenance before he opened his lips ; but, unfortunately, in many instances it proved only a delusive truce to his sufferings. The patient was destined, perhaps, to be harassed by one, two, or three relapses, which prolonged the whole duration of his illness even beyond that of the most protracted typhus. In fact, the liability to frequent relapses was one of the most striking characteristics by which this fever was distinguished from all previous...
Page 212 - I do not like fever curers. You may guide a fever; you cannot cure it. What would you think of a pilot who attempted to quell :a storm? Either position is equally absurd. In the storm you steer the ship as well as you can; in a fever, you can only employ patience and judicious measures to meet the difficulties of the case.
Page 201 - The part which the sclerotica takes in the disease is plain enough, from the intense injection of the blood-vessels which lie on its surface, and which, derived from the muscular and anterior ciliary arteries, are seen running in radii towards the cornea. The change of colour in the iris, the contracted state of the pupil, and the tags of adhesion between the edge of the pupil and the capsule of the lens, show the part which the iris takes in the disease. The internal membrane of the cornea, and...
Page 149 - sometimes in four, for the most part in five or six days, sometimes in nine, and commonly in a critical sweat : it was far from being mortal.
Page 267 - ... undue reluctance to enter fully upon an important pathological inquiry, I beg to remind them, that data are yet wanting to entitle us to discuss it fairly, and with profit. This may be attempted in a subsequent publication, at the close of the epidemic ; in the mean time let the remark of Rousseau be remembered, ' that the truth is in the facts, and not in the mind which observes them...
Page 149 - It was attended with an intense pain in the head. It terminated sometimes in four, for the most part in five or six days, sometimes in nine, and commonly in a critical sweat. It was far from being mortal. I was assured of seventy of the poorer sort at the same time in this fever, abandoned to the use of whey and God's good providence, who all recovered. The crisis, however, was very imperfect, for they were subject to relapses, even sometimes to the third time, nor did their urine come to a complete...
Page 403 - ... with, that during utero-gestation certain ingredients of the milk are eliminated from the blood by the mammary glands, and, as is very well known, often accumulated in the breasts, in sufficient abundance, to escape from the nipple on pressing it between the fingers. This...

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