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The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1834
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Credit: The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / CL. 1.] DIGESTIVE FUNCTION. forp. L SPECIES VI. DYSPHAGIA PHARYNGEA. PHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGY. SWALLOWING OBSTRUCTED BY A POLYPOUS EXCRESCENCE IN THE PHARYNX. Tue variety, produced by a polypous excrescence in the pharynx, is added. Sir Astley Cooper tells us, that he has seen two cases of it; one in a Spanish gentleman who had previously consulted various surgeons at Paris, but apparently without success. It was of the colour of the mucous membrane of this portion of the alimentary tube, beginning from the fold over the palato-pha- ryngeus, and hanging down like a sausage into the pharynx. By great efforts the patient could regurgitate it into his mouth A ligature was passed round its root without much difficulty, and it separated in eight days. The second case was similar in appear- ance, but not quite so large, and grew still more from the root of the tongue. It was removed in the same manner, and with equal success.* [The particulars of another instance of a difficulty of swallowing, from the growth of a polypus from the lining of the pharynx, were communicated, two or three years ago, by Kerga- radec to the Royal Academy of Medicine at Paris.+ The true cause of the dysphagia, which had been treated as a nervous affection, was only made out after death, when the parts were dissected. ] THE DESIRE FOR DRINKING EXCESSIVE OR IMPAIRED. Between the present and the ensuing genus, entitled LimosIs, or MORBID APPETITE, there is a close natural connection, though their position is in different and even distinct organs. The sense of hunger is well known to be seated in the stomach ; and that of thirst in the mouth and fauces. [Thirst is a feeling of a still more urgent kind, and requiring instant satisfaction still more imperiously, than hunger; particularly in warm climates, or when any of the watery secretions are augmented, as in dropsy and diabetes. It is one of the most distressing symptoms in * Lectures on Surgery, vol. ii. p. 356. 8vo. 1825, This addition was found amongst Dr. Good’s papers, subsequently to the completion of the third edition, — Ep. +t See Dict, de Méd. et de Chir. Pratique, art. Dysruasiz. foal 95 Gen. III. Srec. VI. Gen. LV. Design of thirst and hunger.
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