Elements of medicine : a compendious view of pathology and therapeutics, or the history and treatment of diseases / by Samuel Henry Dickson.

  • Dickson, Samuel Henry, 1798-1872.
Date:
1855
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    The Sensorial—pain, in its several modes; hyperesthesia, and anaesthesia; sleep, coma, disorders of sense and intelligence; sympathies, direct and illusory; rigor, and chilliness ........ 125—129 The Motory—not readily separable from the last in pathological conditions and manifestations; common to the two are cramp, spasm, convulsion, paralysis, pros- tration, and relaxation of sphincters ..... 129—130 The Excretory—on the cutaneous surface we notice efflorescence or eruption, pete- chia, and sweating; the urine exhibits numerous changes in quantity and quality; alkaline, albuminous, saccharine, oxyluria, and morbid deposits . 130 Miscellaneous Phenomena—the general aspect, manner, complexion, and physiog- nomy; the risus sardonicus, and facies hippocratica, portrayed; the decubitus often important to be noticed . . . . . . 130 Irritation, congestion, and inflammation discussed together, as concurring so gene- rally, and connected so indissolubly, that they cannot be separately appreciated 131 Irritation—seated in the nervous tissue of parts affected ; its nature various and complex; its direct effects, spasm and fluxus .... 132—137 Congestion—a local hypersemia; not necessarily morbid; may be passive or active, spontaneous or derivative; unattended with change in the tissue . 137—138 Inflammation—a complex condition; a fluxus, determination to a part, local hy- persemia ; irritative or congestive, or both, with tendency to definite change in the part, and certain new results, local and general; the blood is hyperfibrinated; febrile excitement diffused, pus is secreted, or serum poured out, or plastic lymph deposited; adhesions take place, induration occurs, or softening, or abscess, or ulceration, or gangrene ....... 138—150 Periodicity—the special revolution, rhythm, and duration of diseases; self-limiting, paroxysmal, and recurrent maladies described, with their stage of incubation, and latent and intercurrent periods : their regularity ascribed to their sources; har- mony with the corresponding movements of the external world, diurnal, septe- nary, monthly, annual, or of seasons; fixed habits personal to the individual, a second nature; a peculiar and characteristic rhythm of each malady whose spe- cific cause impresses and determines its hour of access, its rate of progress, its acme, and its decline; its acme is crisis, a marked period in acute cases ; obscure in chronic affections ....... 150—160 SECTION V. THE TENDENCY OF DISEASES. Their effects, their termination; the dogma of a vis medicatrix naturae disputed; disease a forced state; its tendencies all evil and injurious, but not all or always destructive or fatal ...... 161—163 Death—considered pathologically; modes of; signs of: neither the heart nor the biceps the ultimum moriens, but the vibratory cilia fringing the mucous mem- branes : proper disposal of dead bodies; cremation to be preferred . 163—165