The Croonian lectures for 1864 : delivered before the president and fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of England. The significance of dropsy, as a symptom in renal, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases / by W.R. Basham.

  • Basham, W. R. (William Richard), 1804-1877.
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1864
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Credit: The Croonian lectures for 1864 : delivered before the president and fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of England. The significance of dropsy, as a symptom in renal, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases / by W.R. Basham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ '.:,'<.)v. > cal ill tliuir cellulai' origin with what is developed by olher mucous membrane; —Catarrh of renal tubes analogous to catarrh in other mucous tissues j—Eibriuous casts, their analogue in the sputa of acute and capillary bronchitis;—Fibrinous blood-casts, their analogue in the sputa of pneumonia;—Oily fatty casts, their analogue in the sputa of phthisis;—Hyaline casts analogous to catarrhal mucus;—Albu- minous urine, theories of its production;—Eeasons for supposing it derived from abortive cells j—Considered in the light of a secretion by imperfect cells;—Affinities observed in cells in certain morbid states;—For the chloride of sodium in pneumonia;—For uric acid by CiU'tilage and other cells in gout;—For fibrine by cells of serous structures:—For bile-pigment by the cutaneous cells and renal gland- cell ;—The pus-cell yields albumen;—Albumen converted into urea by oxidation;—Denied by Dr. Beale ;—May albumen in the urine be considered a pathological substitute for urea ?—General principles of treatment in renal dropsy;—Advantages of wine, nitrogenous food, and iron LECTURE III. Dropsy from disease of the heart and lungs;—Cardiac dropsy, tyi)ical cases of;—From disease of the left heart;—From disease of the lungs and right heart;—Valvular disorganization, nature of;— Ulterior changes and modifications of the deposit;—Process of cretification;—Stellate arrangement of earthy matter;—Apoplexy and cerebral hajmorrhage due to earthy change in small arteries of the brain;—Fatty degeneration of cardiac structures;—Cardiac dropsy not produced solely by mechanical obstructions;—General degeneration of tissue, as in renal dropsies;—Emphysema and chronic bronchitis in relation to cardiac disorders;—Emphysema a fatty degeneration of pulmonary tissue ;—Dilatation of right cavities, how caused;—General fatty condition of cardiac structures;—Cholesterinc and fat-grannies frequent in opaque patches on endocardium and aorta;—Cardiac dropsy not a local but a general decay;—General characters of the treatment of;—All these dropsies characterised by evidence of degraded cell development;—Hydro-carbon nuclei (fatty or amyloid) taking the place of concentrated nitrogenous nuclei ;— Conclusion