A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope.

  • Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph, Edler von Altenstern, 1784-1850
Date:
1827
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Credit: A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This difficult case required throughout, the most strict attention to the state of the intestines. FEVERS WITH PREVALENT LOCAL AFFECTION. Topical Inflammations- Inflammations of particular organs were fre- quent this year, and each month had some ex- amples of them. The forms were various under which they appeared, yet those of the chest were most prevalent, particularly of the pleura and lungs; of the abdominal cases, hepatitis and peritonitis, were the most common. The antiphlogistic treat- ment was always adopted; sometimes the more energetic one of venesection, at others the milder, which consisted of emollient, cooling, attenuating remedies. The treatment must always be accom- modated to the violence of the general and local affection, and to the importance of the affected organ. INFLAMMATIONS OF THE BRAIN. Encephalitis Phrenetica. A woman, thirty-six years old, after great bo- dily exertion, was affected with headaches, and soon after fell into wandering and insensibility; in this state, and on the third ^y of her illness, she was brought into the hospital. A peculiar laugh- ing gay look, the face hot but not flushed, rolling eyes, continued prattling, with a busy motion of the limbs, characterized her state; the pulse was very quick and contracted, though from the con- tinual motion of her hands, this could scarcely be accurately determined. As sbe would not remain in her bed, it was necessary to put on the strait jaeket. She was bled to eight ounces: cold appli- u