A Nosological Practice of Physic, Embracing Physiology

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 384 Seiten
 

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Seite 351 - ... accident in any other part of the body ; but is a species of blood, changed, separated, or thrown off from the common mass by an action of the vessels of the uterus similar to that of secretion ; by which action the blood loses the principle of coagulation, and, I suppose, life.
Seite 178 - ... act very consistently in disjoining insanity also from the corporeal structure, and in representing it as a disease, not of the brain, but of the mind. Thus we come to disease of an immaterial being, for which, suitably enough, moral treatment has been recommended. I firmly believe, on the contrary, that the various forms of insanity, that all the affections comprehended under the general term of mental derangement, are only evidences of. cerebral affections, disordered manifestations of those...
Seite 24 - I have therefore given such a genus a place in our nosology, under the title of Synochus. At the same time, I think that the limits between the synochus and typhus will be with difficulty assigned ; and I am disposed to believe, that the synochus arises from the same cause as the typhus, and is therefore only a variety of it.
Seite 205 - Fuisse traditur excelsa statura, colore candido, teretibus membris, ore paulo pleniore, nigris vegetisque oculis, valitudine prospera, nisi quod tempore extremo repente animo linqui atque etiam per somnum exterreri solebat. Comitiali quoque morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est. Circa corporis curam morosior, ut non solum...
Seite 257 - a yery remarkable instance of two noble females, who got husbands on account of their wealth, although they were nearly idiots, and from whom this mental defect has extended for a century into several families, so that some of all their descendants still continue idiots in the fourth and even in the...
Seite 199 - Kilt made a very deep inspiration of 300 cubic VOL. II. C thorax, quantity of air in the lungs, state of the stomach, and general vigour of the animal; but in man, under the most favourable circumstances, it is extremely doubtful whether the heart ever continues to pulsate for so long a period as five minutes (a) after the lungs have ceased to perform their office ; and it is very questionable whether, in most instances, the interval is not considerably shorter than this. inches, and was thus enabled...
Seite 99 - Portal detected a complete suppuration of the pancreas in a man who had died suddenly after two or three attacks of vomiting, followed by syncope. He had laboured under gout, and was supposed to be convalescent.
Seite 195 - Chevalier, a sudden loss of power in the extreme vessels to propel the blood ; in consequence of which the heart after having contracted, so as to empty itself, and then dilated again, continues relaxed for want of the return of its accustomed stimulus, and dies in that dilated state.
Seite 302 - Nausea lowers the pulse, .contracts the small vessels, occasions cold perspiration, severe rigors, and trembling, and diminishes, as long as it lasts, the action and even the general powers of life. The act of vomiting, on the contrary, rouses rather than depresses ; puts to flight all the preceding symptoms, and restores the system to itself.
Seite 75 - In another, the cavity of the pleura of the right side was distended with a pus that smelled more like whey than a putrid fluid, and the lungs were compressed into a very small compass ; but there was no appearance of ulcer or erosion either on these organs or on the pleura, but only under the pus was a thin crust of coagulable lymph.

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