Lectures on the theory and practice of physic / by William Stokes.
- Stokes, William, 1804-1878.
- Date:
- 1840
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![LECTURE XL Sporadic dysentery—Nature of this disease;—Treatment; mercurial, stimulating, anti- phlogistic—Recommendation of Dr. Elliotson— Success of Dr. O'Beirne in the use of tobacco injections—[Salivation not a necessary measure of the therapeutic effects of mercury in dysentery—Calomel in full doses early in the disease—Opiates when required—The form of disease requiring tonics—Gastric complications—Ipecacuanha in large doses without vomiting—Opium advised by some in large doses from the beginning—Rectal dysentery—Its treatment]—Tympanites, or meteorism—Windy colic, remedies for the cure of—[Notes on flatulent colic, bilious colic, inflammation of the efflcum and tuphlo-enteritis] * 112 LECTURE XII. Pathology of jaundice—Its co-existence with a flow of bile—Case of aneurism, of the hepatic artery—The disease, independent of mechanical construction—Colouring of the various parts—Effects on the milk, and humours of the eye—Jaundice with pre- servation of health—Icterus infantum ..... 140 LECTURE XIII. Jaundice from gastro-duodenitis—Researches of Broussais and Marsh on—Jaundice without hepatic inflammation—Nervous symptoms—Treatment—Yellow fever—its occurrence in this country—Predominance of gastric irritation in warm climates— Typhus icterodes—Jaundice from biliary calculi—Different situations in which biliary calculi may be found ...... 148 LECTURE XIV. Diagnosis of jaundice from biliary calculi—Proof of the passage of the calculus—Indi- cations of treatment—Rupture of the gall-bladder after the use of emetics—Spasmo- dic jaundice—Treatment of spasmodic jaundice—Discharges of fatty matter—Re- searches of Drs. Bright and Elliotson—Connection with malignant disease examined — Source of fatty matter . . . . . . 158 LECTURE XV. Acute and chronic hepatitis—Pathological differences—Effect of climate—General and local symptoms—Character of fever—Pain of shoulder—Use of pleximeter—Com- plication with jaundice—Resolution—Abscess—Various openings of the latter— Cicatrisation . . . . . . . . 166 LECTURE XVI. Diagnosis of the rupture of hepatic abscess—Pulmonary openings—Case of double opening—Puncture of the gall-bladder—Gangrene of the liver—Its connection with hepatic apoplexy—Diagnosis of distended gall-bladder—Its causes—Inflammation of the parietes over the liver—Sympathy of the integuments . ' . 175 LECTURE XVII. Aneurism of the hepatic artery—Distension of the liver with bile—Treatment of he- patitis—Employment of mercury—Symptoms of suppuration—Dr. Graves's operation for giving exit to matter in hepatic abscess—Rupture into the peritoneum—(Jhronic hepatitis—Complication with disease of the heart—Embryonary state of the liver 184 LECTURE XVIII. Treatment of chronic hepatitis—Neuralgia of the liver succeeding hepatitis—Connec- tion of hepatic with gastro-intestinal disease—Modes of transmission of disease from the mucous surface of the liver—Phlebitis of the vena porta—Obstruction of this vein—Case of pulmonary, hepatic, and intestinal fistula;—Hepatic neuralgia 194 LECTURE XIX. Gastritis, with delirium tremens—Varieties of intestinal worms—Organization and origin of—Occurrence in the foetuses of various animals—Formation—Pathology of —Perforation of the intestines by—Worms in tumours and abscesses . 205 LECTURE XX. Symptoms of intestinal worms—Sympathetic irritations—Affections of the nervous and respiratory systems—Various diseases mistaken for worms—Exciting causes of worms—Farinaceous and milk diet—Verminous fever—Treatment of worms—Speci- fic and mechanical purgatives ; calomel, turpentine, &c, &c.—Remedies for each species of worms—Preventive measures ..... 214](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2115692x_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
