Volume 3

Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton.

  • Hirsch, August, 1817-1894.
Date:
1883-1886
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Credit: Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER XXIV. MADURA FOOT AND ELEPHANTIASIS (§§ 239—255). PAGES Clinical History and Morbid Anatomy of Madura Foot—Chief Seats of Fungus-Foot in India—No Special Relation to Climate and Soil—Mostly in Hindu Males in the Prime of Life—Its Parasitic Nature ; Vandyke Carter’s Studies—List of Writers on Madura Foot. Elephantiasis (Baebadoes leg, Cochin leg, Bucnemia Indica, Pachydebmia).—Confusion with Leprosy, solely owing to the Nomenclature—Endemic Seats of Elephantiasis—Favoured by Heat and Moisture—Largely due to Alternations of Heat and Cold acting on the Legs—Peculiarly Narrow Limitation of the Endemic Spots—Wet Localities Most Favorable to it—Evidence against its Malarial Nature—Alleged Influence of Fish-Diet and of Bad Water—Mostly a Disease of the Negro and other Coloured Races, of the Male Sex and Mature Age—Probable Connexion with Accidental Injuries—Filaria Sanguinis accounts for some of it—Introduction into New Localities. Ainhijm.—Clinical Characters and General Circumstances—List of Writers on Ainhum .... 700—731 Organs of Locomotion. CHAPTER XXV. RICKETS (§§ 256—261). Alleged Origin in Seventeenth Centuiy; Glisson’s Treatise—Geogra- phical Area; Immunity of Warm Countries—Influence of Climate and Soil—Ambiguous Evidence as to Artificial Feeding and Suckling—Impure Air of more Consequence than Improper Food—Brittleness of the Bones in Negroes . 732—742 CHAPTER XXVI. RHEUMATISM AND RHEUMATIC FEVER (§§ 262—269). Growth of the Modern Doctrine of Rheumatism; Cullen’s Merits— Geographical Distribution of “ Rheumatism ” as a Whole—Geo- graphical Distribution of Rheumatic Fever.