Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, William.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    immersed, whilst no such appearance presented itself on the water in the other vessel.* The diseases to which the foregoing observa- tions on hurmoral pathology are intended here more particularly to apply, are those of dropsy purpura, and certain other diseases in which the symptoms being most palpable to the senses, their seat may be the more accurately determined; but previously to my entering on a detail of cases, I should premise my intention to place different forms of purpura, dropsy, and other diseases of vascular effusion under distinct heads, such forms appearing to me not only to arise in very oppo- site states of vital power, but also in distinct con- ditions of the fluids or of the solids, which may, however, ulteriorly extend to both. Those under the first head, for the sake of dis- tinction, will be denominated Dynamic, and those of the second Adynamic, The following cases were complications of dropsy and purpura in the same same persons, and of the dynamic kind. * See Transactions of the Association of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. Vol, I, page 163 and 4;