Clinical essays.

  • Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
1862
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Credit: Clinical essays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One type communicable by another . • • • ^o- Urtemia and dropsy may follow any form . • • Distinction in type not caused by season nor by meteorological changes . • • • Severe epidemics probably always prevent a proportion of mild cases . • • • • . il>. Type not influenced by locality . • • .80 Nor by physical condition of patient . ■ .81 No evidence of hereditary tendency to specific type . . H. How is variety of type to be explained 1 . . .82 On doubtful Scarlet Fever . . . • -83 Illustrative cases . . • • . ib. On Scarlet Fever as complicated with acute Rheumatic Fever . 84 The dengue, or scarlatinal rheumatism . . . ib. Described by Wood, Aitken, and others . . . ib. Scarlet fever not unfrequently connected with rheumatic fever . 85 Noticed by Drs. G. Bird, Kelso, and Ross . . . ib. Cases observed by the author . . • .86 Chemical Pathology of Scarlet Fever . .. . .87 Scarlet fever placed by F. Simon among hypinotic diseases . ib. Indications of inflammatory nature of the disease . . 88 Condition of the urine .... . ib. Condition of the skin . . . . .89 Mode of death in scarlet fever the same as in all true inflamma- tory diseases . . . . .91 Poison of Scarlet Fever in relation to its Propagation and Mode of Action . . . . . . ib. Poison travels on material objects rather than by air . . ib. Evidences of solidity of the poison . . . .92 Instances of communication by objects capable of holding the poison . . . . . . ib. Mode in which the poison is received . . .94 Probably by respiration . . . . .95 From what part of the body does the poison come ? . . ib. It does not escape as gaseous matter . . . ib. Mode of action of scarlet fever poison . . .9(5 Objection to general theory of zymosis . . , ib. Nature of the process of fermentation . . ',97 Distinctions between alcoholic fermentation and zymosis . 98 Zymosis probably a natural act of the body . . . ib. Action of introduced bodies rather to modify zymosis than to excite it . . . . . .99 Application of the zymosis theory to scarlet fever . . 100 Scarlet fever and rheumatism both probably produced by acids . 101