Selected monographs.

  • New Sydenham Society.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the views of the master if we find here a confirmation of the doctrines of Dupuytren, the great apostle of arteritis, as every one knows. I may perhaps be accused of prejudice in the oppo- site sense, hut it seems to me that the system, of which I do not deny the intrinsic value, has undoubtedly in this case met with a hole through which it cannot pass. In any case it must be admitted that the success of the general bleedings (if it is indeed to them that we must attribute the cure) would not suffice to establish the existence of an arteritis. I now record two cases which I observed at the Hopital des Enfants Malades, the one in 1860 during my internat under M. Bouvier, the other quite recently in M. Koger's ward. These two cases require to be compared one with the other, because they are mutually complementary. I shall be pardoned, on account of their importance, for the minute details into which I have entered relating to the local state of the diseased parts. Case XII.—Local asphyxia and superficial gangrene of the skin of the lower extremities ; traces of the affection in the tipper limbs. Recovery. Georges G., 3| years old, admitted May 16, 1860, to the Hopital des Enfants, under the care of M. Bouvier. A puny child of brown skin and extreme emaciation, with frontal bosses much developed, cheeks hollowed, aspect of the face somewhat singular; on the first look one would regard the child as an idiot, but on getting him to talk we find that this is not the case. His parents are healthy, there is no evidence of syphilis. The child has a sister who was attacked with scurvy at Lyons during the inundations of the Loire, and who has now vertebral disease dating from when she was 18 months old. He remained out to nurse up to 3 years old in the Depart- ment of Cevennes; he was weaned at the age of 7 months. From that time his nourishment was that of the peasants of the district; it consisted in chestnuts boiled in milk, very black bread, made chiefly of buckwheat, and with a certain proportion of rye (about which one could never ascertain whether it had been altered or not), sometimes vegetables, potatoes, rarely meat. He often slept outside with the shepherds. He had never had ague or convulsions; the only illness of which they had any knowledge was a suppurating gland whilst he was being nursed. Since his