A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PAGH growths within the larynx—Laryngeal paralysis—Laryngismus stridulus — Croup — Spurious croup — Percussion — Medical anatomy of the lungs, liver, and spleen—Auscultation, . .51 CHAPTER IV. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. Section II. Pertussis — Asthma — Hay asthma—Acute bronchitis — Fibrinous Ijronchitis — Pulmonary collapse (Atelectasis) — Catarrhal pneumonia—Congestion and osdema of the lungs—Croupous pneumonia—Haemorrhagic infarction—Chronic bronchitis— Cirrhosis of the lungs — Emphysema — Foetid bronchitis— Bronchiectasis—Gangrene of the lung—Phthisis, and miliary tuberculosis — Cancer of the lung — Hydatids — Pleurisy — Hydrothorax — Pneuniothora.x, hydro-pneumothorax, and pyo-pneumothorax — Pleurodynia — The classification and diagnosis of the diseases of the pulmonary organs - Causes of hfemoptysis 7Q CHAPTER V. THE URINE. General remarks—Quantity, specific gravity, colour and trans- parency, odour and re-action—Albuminuria—Peptonuria— Urea, and its estimation—Sugar, and its estimation—Tests for bile, blood, pus, urobilan, indican, and acetone—Tests for chlorides, phosphates, and uric acid — Examination of deposits — AV/irn'-n't' appearances: mucus, pus, uric and oxalic acids, urates, oxalate of lime, triple phosphates, amor- phous phosphates—Urinary concretions—yl/jwoj-fo/Zc examin- ation of deposits—Inorganic deposits: uric acid crystals, urates, oxalate of lime, triple phosphates, neutral phos]ihatcs of lime, cystin, leucin, and -Organic deposits: tube casts, blood corpuscles, pus, epithelium, spermatozoa—Micro-organisms, and parasites.