On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson.

  • Alderson, James, 1795-1882.
Date:
1853
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. LECTURE I., p. 1. Introductory observations—Views of the ancients, and comparison with modern authors—Distinguishing symptoms of acute rheuma- tism—Fluids of the body in health—In inflammation, and in acute rheumatism—Principal deviation, the overfibrinated state of the blood—Origin of fibrine—Interference with nutrition and the diminished production of fibrine, by loss of animal heat and absence of atmospheric oxygen—Essential difference between inflammation and acute rheumatism—Distinguishing symptoms —Metastasis—Process of cold-taking—Chemically-excited state of the atmosphere—Electrical causes—Structure of the joints— Nature of the tissues—View of the pathology of the disease. LECTURE IL, p. 38. Recapitulation—Minuter examination of characteristic symptoms— Henle—Reasons for localization explained—Metastasis—What joints most attacked—Liability of children—Different forms of rheumatism—Effusion—Complications—Heart and other vital organs—Course of the disease marked by tissues involved— Chorea—Local rheumatism—Theories of rheumatism discussed— Morbid poisons in the blood—Lactic acid—Nervous and heredi- tary influence. LECTURE III, p. 77. Recapitulation—Treatment of acute rheumatism—By bleeding, general and local—Purgatives—Calomel—Tonics and opiates— The alkaloids — Strychnia — Colchicia — Quina — Caffeine and Tlieine—Acids and alkalis—Counter-irritants—Conclusion.