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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    V LECTURE III. In my last Lecture, after recapitulating the physio- logical data, and sketching the argument which I deduced from them, I proceeded to examine the symptoms which especially characterize rheumatism, and appHed to each that principle of explanation which had been the result of the argument. I dis- cussed more minutely the view proposed in the first lecture, both of obstruction and metastasis, considering a solution of fibrine in the joints to be the regular consequence of the stasis, and of the ab- sence of further supply of oxygen to the blood ob- structed. The probable reasons for locahzation were examined, and that circumstance dwelt on as indi- cating the difference between common inflammation and the rheumatic tjrpe. The general localizing cause was referred to the structure of the organs usually affected; and the choice of individual seats of attack, attributed either