Scrofula and Its Gland Diseases: An Introduction to the General Pathology of Scrofula, with an Account of the Histology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Its Glandular Affections

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Bermingham & Company, 1882 - 181 pagina's
 

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Pagina 83 - ... the malar bones often predominant, and the features generally coarse and irregular. The nose is usually thick, the lips tumid, the lobes of the ears large, and the neck unshapely. The teeth are often ill formed and soon become carious. The skin is coarse, harsh, and thick. The amount of subcutaneous tissue is considerable and often sufficient to conceal the muscular outlines of the body. The skin in the previous type is fine, and it is possible to pinch up with the fingers a little portion of...
Pagina 23 - ... constitute a disease any more than does suppuration." It is the exclusive indication of no one malady and the outcome of no one special state of defective health. Although one recognizes the fact that tubercle appears in scrofula, yet one is positively loth to term scrofula a tuberculous disease ; and I would almost go so far as to say that it would be well not to call it a tuberculous disease, until the bias associated with the latter term has been removed, until that term is accepted in a more...
Pagina 82 - ... describes the two classical consumptive types : (1) ' The Fine or Sanguine Type. — The children have fine and regular features, well-shaped limbs, and delicate hands. The skin is clear, white, and thin, and marbled with venules. The complexion is usually fair. The face is oval, the lower jaw small, and the lips thin. The eyes are bright and covered with long lashes, and the hair is often remarkably fine and silken. In the younger children there is not infrequently a faint growth of downy hair...
Pagina 83 - The nose is generally thick, the lips tumid, the lobes of the ears large, and the neck unshapely. The skin is coarse, harsh, and thick. The amount of subcutaneous cellular tissue is considerable, and often sufficient to conceal the muscular outlines of the body. The skin in the previous type is fine, and it is possible to pinch up with the fingers a little portion of it ; but in these individuals none but a large fold of skin can be picked up, as it is so coarse. Speaking generally, persons of this...
Pagina 68 - ... this effect, the most important of which are a disordered state of the digestive organs, gout, cutaneous diseases, the injurious influence of mercury on the system, debility from disease, age, &c. ; — in short, a deteriorated state of health in the parent from any cause, to a degree sufficient to produce a state of cachexia, may give rise to the scrofulous constitution in the offspring.
Pagina 13 - Henle's description of it was well merited, that " scrofula is the receptacle into which one vaguely casts all the ailments which afflict children under fourteen years, and of which we do not know the cause.
Pagina 28 - The manifestations of scrofula are commonly associated with the appearance of tubercle ; or if no fully formed tubercle be met with, a condition of tissue obtains that is recognized as being preliminary to tubercle. Anatomically, therefore, scrofula may be regarded as a tuberculous or tubercle-forming process. 2. The form of tubercle met with in scrofulous diseases is usually of an elementary and often of an immature character.
Pagina 40 - In the light of the pathology of to-day we cannot accept as a definition of scrofula that it is "a tendency in the individual to inflammations of a peculiar type, the distinctive features of such inflammations being as follows : they are usually chronic, apt to be induced by very slight irritation, and to persist after the irritation that induced them has disappeared...
Pagina 13 - ... share. Scrofula at one time posed as a tubercular process, tubercle at another has been described as a scrofulous process. Once more, the two conditions have been quite distinct, and have even been antagonistic ; and lastly, they have been identical with no line of separation between them.
Pagina 120 - that whenever the outward glands do appear swelled you may safely conclude the mesenteric to be so too, they being usually the first part that is attacked by this malady.

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