Essays on pathology and therapeutics: being the substance of the course of lectures (Volume 1).

  • Dickson, Samuel Henry, 1798-1872.
Date:
1845
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    CHAPTER VIII. Catarrhal Fever;—sporadicf epidemic; influenza; history; causes; prognosis;, treatment. CHAPTER IX. Typhus Fever;—includes Typhus and Typhoid ; modifications discussed ; identity maintained, through many varieties; history; causes; prognosis ; diagnosis proposed; autopsy; dothinenteria; treatment. CHAPTER X. Pneumonia Typhoides ;—names ; history; met with in England and Ireland, a& well as America ; anomalies; causes; diagnosis; prognosis ; autopsy ; treat- ment. CHAPTER XI. Symptomatic Fever;—Continued and Intermittent. 1. Inflammatory; connected with external wounds and injuries ; closely analogous with the attendant fever of the phlegmasiae; developed promptly. 2. Hectic; of quotidian or double quotidian type ; connected with chronic inflammations and internal disorgani- zation, slowly progressive ; developed after protracted existence of its cause ; history; treatment. CHAPTER XII. Syncope ;—Leipothymia; nature; seat; history; cause.? ; diagnosis ; prognosis; effects; treatment. CHAPTER XIII. Angina Pectoris;—Stemalgia; probable seat and proximaie cause; histor)'; remote causes; diagnosis; prognosis; autopsy; treatment during paroxysm ; during interval. CHAPTER XIV. Hemorrhage;—general history; causes; plethora discussed; seat and nature various; entonic and atonic, or active and passive; modes of occurrence- periodical; vicarious. CHAPTER XV. Particular Hemorrhages;—Epistaxis ; history; causes; treatment. Hemorrhage from gums, fauces, etc.; does not often occur without previous injury or dis- ease. Hemoptysis; sometimes idiopathic; modified by cause; by morbid condition of subject; diagnosis; prognosis; history; causes; autopsy; treat- ment. Hoematemesis; description; diagnosis; history; causes; treatment.