A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life : with an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis / by George E. Day.

  • Day, George Edward, 1815-1872.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life : with an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis / by George E. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on so gradually and insensibly, that the patient is hardly aware of its commencement. He perceives that he is sooner tired than usual, and that he is thinner than he was ; but yet he has nothing mate- rial to complain of. In process of time his appetite becomes seriously impaired ; his nights are sleep- less ; or if he gets sleep, he is not refreshed by it. His face becomes visibly extenuated, or perhaps acquires a bloated look. His tongue is white, and he suspects that he has a fever. “ If he ask advice, his pulse is found quicker than it should be, and he acknowledges that he has felt pains occasionally in his head and chest, and that his legs are disposed to swell; yet there is no defi- ciency in the quantity of his urine, nor any other sensible feature in the action of the abdominal viscera, excepting that the bowels are more sluggish than they used to be. “ Sometimes the headache is accompanied with vertigo; and sometimes severe rheumatic pains, as the patient believes them to be, are felt in various parts of the body, and in the limbs ; but on inquiry these have not the ordinary seat, nor the common accompaniments of rheumatism, and seem rather to take the course of nerves than of muscular fibres. “ In the latter stages of this disease, the stomach seems to lose all its powers; the frame becomes more and more emaciated ; the cellular membrane in the lower limbs is laden with fluid; there is an insurmountable restlessness by day, and a total want