The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury.

  • Salisbury, James Henry, 1823-1905.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury. 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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    able to attend to business. Very nervous and wakeful nights. Dreams troubled and always tired and languid. Prickling, numb feelings in extremities, with coldness of feet and hands. Plate VI, Fig. 2, represents the skeins of connective tissue in the blood of a lady patient eighty-five years of age. She has had a most remarkable constitution; has always been in compara- tively good health as long as she could be active. During sev- eral years previous to this examination, she had lived chiefly on bread foods and tea, on account of loss of teeth. At the time of the examination she was very dizzy and confused, and liable to fall at any time when on her feet: ideas somewhat mixed; prickly sensations in extremities and heart-beats slow and inter- mittent. Plate VII, Figs. I, 2, 3 and 4, represent skeins of connective tissue in the blood of a man of most remarkable constitution, a possessor of large wealth, who had always fed extravagantly upon all the “good things” that money could buy, and excel- lent cooks coidd prepare. For three years previous to my see- ing him, he had been given up to die, and had already been tapped 79 times during that period. All the glands of the abdominal cavity were enlarged and hardened, and the abdomen largely distended. The skin was jaundiced ; eyes glassy ; feet and extremities cold and often painful and dropsical. The pulse ranged from 44 to 50 with at least 25 interruptions to the min- ute. Head mixed and bewildered, and body and mind weak and incapacitated from acting with any directness of purpose.