Volume 2

A system of medicine / edited by J. Russell Reynolds.

Date:
1870-1872
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Credit: A system of medicine / edited by J. Russell Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Abdomen, retraction of, in meningitis, 370, 388 ; pain in, in tetanus, 655 ; after perforation of the stomach, 937 ; from ulcer of the stomach, 931. Abdominal diseases, connexion of, with melancholia, 16. Abortive epilepsy, 310. Abscess, abdominal, secondary to ulcer of the stomach, 925. Abscess of the brain, article on, 568 ; a cause of convulsions, 290 ; diagnosis of, from tubercular meningitis, 402. Abstinence from drink, relation of, to the induction of delirium tremens, 144 5 essential in treatment of alcoholism, 166. Acephalocysts, in the brain, 515 ; in the spinal cord, 715. Acidity of the stomach, 814. Acids, the mineral, in treatment of atonic dyspepsia, 840 ; in the dyspepsia of phthisis, 907. Acne of the face, due to alcohol, 154 ; diagnostic value of, 161. Acute alcoholism, 156. Acute gastritis, 863, 868. Acute mania, 25 ; treatment of, 63. Acute softening of the brain, 447. Acute specific diseases, the, a cause of convulsions in children, 265 ; of in- sanity, 16 ; of acute gastritis, 866. Acute tuberculosis in the child, symptoms of pulmonary form, 398 ; of typhoid form, 397. Adventitious products in the brain, article on, 491 ; in the meninges, 422. Affective, or pathetic, insanity, 36. Age, distinction between nominal and real, 756; predisposing to cancer of the stomach, 950 ; to chorea, 186 ; to cerebral haemorrhage, 526 ; to conges- tion of the brain, 431 ; to convulsions, 253 ; to cysticerci in the brain, 512 ; to atonic dyspepsia, 826 ; to epilepsy, 296 ; to chronic hydrocephalus, 410 ; to hydatids in the brain, 515 ; to hypochondriasis, 75 ; to hysteria, 83 ; to insanity, 11 ; to laryngismus stri- dulus, 258 ; to locomotor ataxy, 680 ; to simple meningitis, 377 ; to tubercular meningitis, 383 ; to neuralgia, 739 ; neuroses of the stomach, 844 ; to paralysis agitans, 233 ; to general paralysis of the insane, 42 ; to essential paralysis of children, 707 ; to sciatica, 749; to softening of the brain, 472; to ulcer of the stomach, 913 ; to wast- ing palsy, 334; to writer’s cramp, 246. Age, influence of, on diagnosis of hypochon- driasis, 75 ; on prognosis of epilepsy, 312, 321 ; of insanity, 60 ; of chronic mercurial poisoning, 358 ; of neuralgia, 740, 758 ; of softening of the brain, 489. Albuminuria, a cause of convulsions, 265, 287 ; see also “Bright’s disease.” Alcohol, effects of, on the system, 145 ; on the pulse, ib. ; oxidation of, in the system, 165 ; elimination of, by the urine, 146 ; test for, in the urine, 558 ; when taken in excess, a cause of gastritis, 891 ; of cirrhosis of the liver, 154 ; useful in treatment of neuralgia, 767 ; of chorea, 217 ; of tetanus, 669. Alcoholism, article on, 143; including definition, ib. ; synonyms, ib. ; history, ib. ; etiology, ib. ; symptoms of the chronic form, 151 ; of the acute, 156 ; diagnosis, 161 ; prognosis, 162 ; com- plications, 164 ; pathology, ib. ; treat- ment, 166. Alcoholism, acute, diagnosis of, from apoplexy, 556, 557. Alcoholism, chronic, relation of, to hypo- chondriasis, 76, 81. Alkalies, value of, in treatment of atonic dyspepsia, 840 ; in chronic gastritis, 907. Amaurosis, a common symptom in loco- motor ataxy, 677 ; a rare sequel of convulsions in children, 263. Amenorrlicea, relation of, to ulcer of the stomach, 916. Ammonia, carbonate of, in chorea, 217 ; muriate of, in neuralgia, 766 ; in gastritis, 887. Amyloid corpuscles in the brain, 423 ; numerous in the insane, 56, 57. Amyloid degeneration of the mucous membrane of the stomach, 904. Anremia, predisposes to atonic dyspepsia,