Clinical Lectures on the Physiological Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis: Together with a Fasciculus of Class-room Lessons Covering the Initiatory Period

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881 - 116 pagina's
 

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Pagina 39 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Pagina 69 - That in order to secure the antidotal efficacy of mercury against syphilis, it is desirable to introduce a considerable quantity into the system and to protract its use over a very long time. " That ptyalism and other evidences of the physiological action of mercury, so far from being beneficial, are if possible to be carefully avoided, since they prevent the sufficiently prolonged use of the remedy.
Pagina 5 - ... from the living matter of health, but which has acquired the property of retaining its life under new conditions ; living matter destroyed with difficulty, and possessing such wonderful energy that it will grow and multiply when removed from the seat of its development and transferred to another situation, provided only it be supplied with suitable nutrient pabulum...
Pagina 114 - When an axillary gland becomes cancerous, after previous cancerous disease of the mamma, and when during a long period only the axillary gland remains diseased without the group of glands next in succession or any other organs becoming affected with cancer, we can account for this upon no other supposition than that the gland collects the hurtful ingredients absorbed from the breast, and thereby for a time affords protection to the body...
Pagina 69 - That mercury is probably a true vital antidote against the syphilitic virus, and that it is capable of bringing about a real cure. That, in practice, a good many cases are really cured by •mercury ; the cure being proved by the restoration to good health ; and, in some cases, by renewed susceptibility to contagion.
Pagina 4 - The walls of the capillary vessels of the papillae are thickened, have a shining and rigid appearance, and inclose numerous nuclei which project even into the lumen of the vessels. The adventitia of the arteries and veins is three times its normal thickness, in consequence of the presence of numerous round, spindle-shaped, and branched cells. The calibre of the vessels is diminished, but the vessels are permeable. If the induration still increases we find in its vicinity an abundant proliferation...
Pagina 48 - Ricord claims that tertiary lesions are not inoculable, and cannot be transmitted by hereditary descent. Bumstead states, in his last edition, after reviewing this matter, "Hence we consider the blood and the secretions in tertiary syphilis innocuous.
Pagina 23 - ... scarlatina, and smallpox. Firstly, the nervous depression, showing the stagnating influence of the accumulated poison. Secondly, the congestion of the mucous membranes, particularly of the fauces, showing the effort made by the bloodvessels to eject the poison through that tissue. And thirdly, the cutaneous exanthema, which completes the triumph of the pressure from within, and is the sign that the poison is driven to the surface and is in process of expulsion.
Pagina 25 - ... termed the syphilitic poison, and described it as " the exanthema which completes the triumph of the pressure from within, and is the sign that the poison is being driven to the surface, and is in process of expulsion." Xo better example of the disposition of authorities to attribute the manifestations of syphilis to purely unscientific and supernatural causes than the above could be furnished. It must be remembered that the roseola of syphilis resembles...
Pagina 30 - Limestone," which sometimes attains a thickness of some thousands of feet — to be almost entirely made up of the shells of Fora/minifera. In the case of the " Nummulitic Limestone " just mentioned, these shells VOL.

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