Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 5: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Science The two sounds are not, however, exactly alike. They differ somewhat, both in quality and duration. The first is a dull, prolonged noise the second a shorter and smarter sound, having more of a clacking or flapping character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 10 I am far, however, from maintaining that the means thus far indicated are the only means that would be indicated in every case of febrile disease. The fust element in fever is perhaps even more commonly depression than excitement; it is pure excitement, the consequence of the inoculation of a specific morbid poison, in sear latina; in intermittent and continued fever I believe it always to be depression so that the means of restoring the balance would be not the farther abstraction, but the addition of stimulus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, 1875, Vol. 70: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences The condition of the tongue in typhoid is very variable. Most commonly in the early stage it is covered with a whity brown fur and somewhat dry; at a later period it becomes very dry, and is covered with a thick brown fur, the tip and edges being often at the same time red and sore-looking. There are also sordes on the teeth and the lips are parche'd. In other cases, however, the tongue has only the whity brown fur and is not quite dry during the whole illness; and in yet others the tongue is throughout morbidly red, glazed, and flssured. Usuall as convalescence advances, the fur gradually recedes from the tip towards t e root of the tongue, leaving the external surface red and sore-looking; but sometimes the coating is rapidly shed and the whole surface a asumes the same condition. The abdominal symptoms are generally predominant. At the commence ment of the attack there is usually more or less diarrhma, the bowels being moved from three or four to six or eight times in the twenty-four hours, and the stools are of a pale yellow or greenish or brownish colour, and are almost entirely fluid. With the progress of the disease the diarrhaea generally sub sides, the stools are passed less frequently and become more consistent, and at a still later period the relaxation generally ceases and is replaced by constipa tion. In some cases, however, the diarrhwa will be yet more severe, so that the bowels may be moved every few minutes. There may be blood in the stools, and the evacuations may be passed in bed, either from the patient being unconscious or from his being too weak to retain them. In yet other cases, on the contra there may be an entire absence of diarrhoea, evacuations only being procur during the whole course of the fever, by the exhibition of ape rients or of enemata. Of the cases reported upon, in several there was no diarrhoea, and in one of these there was obstinate sickness and vomiting, and in two others the same symptoms occurred, though the bowels were also relaxed. In four cases blood was discharged by stool. In one of these the hemorrhage occurred on the fourth day after admission and the sixth from seizure, but the patient had been ailing for a longer time, and death rapidly ensued. In another case the bleeding did not take place till the twenty-ninth day from admission and the forty-third of illness, and the patient survived three days. The other two cases terminated favourably, though in one of them the patient bled pro fusely from the nose and also vomited blood. The hemorrhage occurred two days after admission or on the thirteenth day of illness. In the other case the bleeding was in progress when the patient was admitted after a week's se vere illness, but he had been ailing before. In a filth case which recovered the patient had passed blood in the stools before admission after being three weeks ill, but he had no bleeding afterwards. It is well known that epistaxis is a very common symptom at the commencement of typhoid, and I have known in several cases very large quantities of blood so lost. In two such in stances, not included in this calculation, the patients would certainly have bled to death had the nostrils not been plugged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
