A Treatise on tuberculosis

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Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852 - 779 páginas
 

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Página 109 - ... 1. That from the earliest invasion the sum of the vital force is either below the standard of health, or it is relatively low as respects the structure and organization of the individual. 2. That this diminution in the sum of the vital force...
Página 646 - Intermarriage, or the mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease, and insanity from others...
Página 475 - ... of these attacks, which have ended in some cases .... in death in the acute stage, in others in a prostrate sinking state with a gradual wasting away of the body, and all the symptoms and ultimately all the postmortem morbid appearances of tubercular disease of the lungs.
Página 92 - The expansion of the second ribs is usually alike on both sides; below, all the inspiratory movements, especially those over the heart, are usually somewhat less on the left side than on the right, both during ordinary and extreme inspiration. In the healthy boy, owing to the greater flexibility of the costal cartilages, the extreme movement of the thoracic ribs is greater in proportion to the breathing-capacity than it is in the adult : the upper portion of the sternum advances more than the lower...
Página 733 - ... of the large bowel is not made worse by it. 14. That the good effects of the oil are...
Página 563 - ... remains undiminished, this tissue not requiring for its nutrition, compound principles identical with it to be introduced into the blood with the food, and having a nutrition peculiar to itself, differing from that of the cellular and muscular structures. The fatal disease, tuberculosis may be traced to a primary error or defect in the blood-making process. Vitiated air, or air stagnating or insufficiently renewed within the chest, and probably other anti-hygienic influences, as a vitiated or...
Página 322 - In this joint three bones are in apposition, viz., the lower end of the femur, the upper end of the tibia, and the patella.
Página 452 - ... well-marked indications of the disease. During the ten years that I was physician of this association I witnessed its entire renovation two or three different times, owing to the successive loss of all its members, with • " On the Chest," Forbes
Página 205 - ... ectropion of the os uteri). The ovula Nabothi are very frequently found. These are round translucent nodules, from the size of a millet-seed to that of a pea, and filled with liquid, which are seated in the cervical canal and about the os uteri They are the distended follicles of the portio vaginalis, whose excretory duct is closed, but whose secretion continues.
Página 92 - The difference is much greater when the stays are on than when they are off. When the stays are on, the thoracic movement at the second ribs is from '06 to '2 in.

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