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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    of fibrine in excess, may, according to our suppo- sition, be modified by the degree of self-relief which is afibrded by the local afiection. I append a table of the analyses of blood in acute rheumatism, by Andral and Gavarret, after various bleedings:— FIRST CASE. Venesection. Day of Disease. Water. Fibrine. Blood Corpuscles. Residue of Serum. 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 10 25 797-1 796-9 812-5 820 6 769-7 8- 9 9- 8 8-5 6-4 2-8 109-3 107-5 95-4 93-5 117-9 84-7 81-8 83-6 79-5 89-6 SECOND CASE. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 13 17 28 778-8 780-9 788 0 799-0 813-9 826-2 6- 1 7- 2 7-8 10-2 9-0 7-0 123-1 120-7 112-8 101-0 89-2 83-8 92-0 91-2 91-4 89-8 87-9 83-0 Another important circumstance has also been noticed—^that the more severe the symptoms are at the commencement of the attack, the sooner is that maximum point of excess of fibrine arrived at. The fibrine is, in fact, found to be produced more rapidly in proportion to the severity of the first onset of the disease; probably, it may be said, in proportion to the first exciting atmospheric cause. The increase up to a certain period is to be explained by the accumulation which must take place in con-