Chorea and whooping cough : five lectures / by Octavius Sturges.

  • Sturges, Octavius, 1833-1894.
Date:
1877
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    CHOREA. »o« LECTURE I. DESCRIPTION AND MODE OF ORIGIN. DEFINITION—VARIETIES—ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS OF CHOREA— CONNECTION WITH RHEUMATISM—WITH MENTAL DISTURB- ANCE. Gentlemen,—The subject of these lectures hardly needs formal justification. It wiU not be urged against the discussion of chorea and diseases of the same class, that their nature is already sufficiently understood. Take, for instance, these three affec- tions, whooping-cough, chorea, hysteria, and observe how wide is the difference of opinion in regard to all of them. As to the first, the prevalent belief (and that which the State sanctions in its official Returns) connects whooping-cough not with nervous diseases, but with enteric fever and small-pox. As B