General pathology, as conducive to the establishment of rational principles for the diagnosis and treatment of disease : a course of lectures, delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital, during the summer session of 1850 / by John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
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1850
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    (3) diseases affecting the intrinsic metamorphoses of the blood; (a) Cell-growth in blood; augmented in plethora; in men- struation ; diminished in chlorosis; therapeutic effects of iron explicable on general principle; effects of spleen-disease on the development of the blood ; (b) Serum ; relation of its salts to production of scorbutus? relation of its aZftwrnew to scrofu- lous and gouty deposits? Extractive matters: fat; conditions leading to ^'mvXiddmm: fibrin; its signification in health; and that of hyperinosis in disease; fibrinous concretions in internal organs; pathology of endocardial deposits. LECTURE IV. (p, 59—77.) Quantitative Irkegularities in distribution of Blood.— Local hypercemia ; {di) passive: its mechanical causes ; exuda- tion; peculiarities of exuded fluid; their explanation; instances of passive hyperoemia and of its effects; it does not conduce to hypertrophy; (b) active hyperaemia; physiology of fluctuating supplies of blood ; power of molecular change to determine alteration in supply of blood; influence of nervous system over heart and arteries ; muscularity of arteries ; injuries of sensitive nerves affecting nutrition; cases and experiments bearing on the neuropathic theory of inflammation. LECTURE V. (p. 78—07.) Active hyperaemia (continued) ; condition of afferent vessels ; reflex- relaxation of their muscular fibres ? increased action ? Irregular growth. — (1) Hypertrophy : its distinction from inflammation, and from various accidental causes of increased dimension: laws of renewal after waste: reiiovative hypertrophy of muscle; of gland—nephritis, bronchocele ; fortifying hyper- trophy— rickets; hypertrophy from withdrawal of pressure — cranial bones, teeth. (2) Atrophy ; from disuse of organs ; muscular; osseous; glandular; relation to local anaemia ; pro- gress and mode of origin of atrophic changes ; accidental atrophy from disease of arteries; brain; kidney; effects of secale cornutum : pressure—difference in its effects, as it is constant or remitting. (3) Morbid changes of consistence, and their relation to changes of nutrition.