A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison.

Date:
1899
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Credit: A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Pericarditis .ay be -u. or ci™^ the same as other ^^^u fhe a S Wood-vessels. It may be at the base of the heart_ aliout the J^S^ ? ^ ^ ^^^^H ^^ea or be tough, but sometimes it as soft, and it f , esent a diffused over the whole P-.cardi^^^^ Scenm ogsVhich may ho-7.--^tff^Pl¥S.:;in^rfsiny serous, but it Ly be a mix^ be stripped ofl. i he '-sioi i purulent. 1 he ture of Wood and s™^^^^ soUimes it is as quantitymaybe f om J^^^^ place; or the much as tMee pmts. *-°™P'^''',?^^-^^ „f the visceral and parietal lymph may, ultimately, ^^^^.^^f in calcifica- layers of the pericardium. These chan es m y ^^^^^^.^ tion; or an effusion may remam and ^^^^^^ dition. Suppurative pericarditis ™ as 1 ^^^^^^^ disease and scepticcemic f - f^^^^^^J^ i ndrely surgical.] from other organs. Ij^^^t^^^^^^^ disease, rheumatism, gou , and The causes are chiefly Lng s msea , extension to fevers. It may occur as refJ^^VX i^^ pneumonia, chronic the pericardium of other diseases a P^e J; 1^^^,^^^ abscesses, i^adsL' No specific S--^as^^^^^^ , i.Uy when The symptoins are ^om^Umes not very ^^.^^ ^^^^^ the pericarditis is s Jve^ ^^^^ precordial region. There is frequently pam oi uneasn e^^^ o and rapid action of the ^^^ar • i here ji. y pericarditis apparently idiopathic form of the cto anses in connection with non-lebn e c. effusion takes place, and e^f^^^^V and cough-the'face being denly, there is syncope severe pn-,^ a . J . pale and anxious The pulse^is ^i^^.^.^^^ ^ j^^^ ^,,eb i setting in. . , . at the base of the heart, which The earliest physical ^'g/ /'^^^Xdon be soft. It is superficial may, however, be absent f f^^^^^ ° ^^i^h the valvular sounds ; in character, and it is not synch, onous w: stethoscope, and it is sometimes increased l^y F^ssu e j ^^^tj^ns in the Inspiration and f pi-tion, som time p^ ^^^^.^^ friction-sound. After effusion of ser ^^^^^^ is sometimes .in the heart-sounds are [^ebh^^ and disU ^^^^^ undulatoryimpulse lobeobser ed, and^ P^^^^^^^