The principles of diagnosis / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1834
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    ried suffering, chiefly in the abdomen or in the head, — and resembling acute inflammation of those parts*. 34. Next to irritation, we must consider the case of Exhaustion, or of Inanition, from loss of blood or other causes. As in so many other morbid affections, the general system and differ- ent organs, are affected in this disease, hut espe- cially the head and the heartf. Like irritation, exhaustion has long been mistaken, in its effects, for some inflammatory diseases. Both these cases should be constituted, like fever, inflammation, &c. into genera or classes of disease. The for- mer are scarcely less frequent or less important than the latter, and the diagnosis is one of the utmost moment. 35. Nearly allied both to irritation and ex- haustion are Acute Dyspepsia and Chlorosis. Conjoining a marked affection of the general sys- tem with equally marked topical affections, they, like so many other diseases, must he viewed in the light of classes rather than of individuals. It is highly important that the young physician should be familiar with both their general and their local forms. 36. The same observation applies to Hys- teria. Consisting originally in intestinal, or uterine, or, as some say, spinal irritation, and inducing peculiar effects upon the nervous and * See the “Researches,” already quoted, p. 210. t Ibid, chap, iii, and p. 115.