Volume 1

Text-book of the principles and practice of medicine / by the late Charles Hilton Fagge and Philip Henry Pye-Smith.

  • Fagge, Charles Hilton, 1838-1883.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Text-book of the principles and practice of medicine / by the late Charles Hilton Fagge and Philip Henry Pye-Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strictly local nor yet specific fevers. They are—scurvy and other disorders accompanied by anaemia and hajmorrhage, which may provisionally be regarded as primary hrematoses ; rheumatism, gout and other idiopathic and multiple affections of the joints {arthroses) ; and the numerous and complicated disorders which affect the skin and its appendages. In each section we shall more or less closely follow the same order, dealing first with the name and history of the disease; then with its clinical characters, course, and complications ; next with its anatomy and pathology, its aetiology and natural history, and its diagnosis from other diseases. Lastly will come its prognosis and prophylactic, palliative, or remedial treatment. Before, however, we begin the study of the several specific fevers, it will be well to devote a few preliminary chapters to certain pathological pro- cesses which are common to them and to many of the local diseases to be afterwards described. These are contagion, fever, inflammation, pyaemia, and the formation of new growths. Other general pathological processes, as anaemia, dropsy, embolism, and the various forms of degeneration, will be better considered afterwards with the diseases in which they are most important.