Volume 2

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

Date:
1870-1872
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    Douche, cold, in catalepsy, 122 ; in hys- teria, 10(5; in insanity, 64 ; in sun- stroke, 140. Dress, relation of, to sunstroke, 138. Drinking, tendency to, in hysteria, 95. Drunkards, the dyspepsia of, 875, 900; treatment of, 909 ; morning sickness of, 154. Drunkenness, physiology of, 145 ; diagno- sis of, from apoplexy, 557. Duodenum, chronic irlcer of, 912, 919; frequency of, 920 ; perforation by, 923- 45; haemorrhage from, 926, 937; patho- logy, 928, 929 ; symptoms, 932, 936 ; diagnosis, 942 ; treatment, ib.; a cause of stricture, 921. Duodenum, ulcer of, due to burns, 917, 921 (note) ; pathology of, 928. Dura mater, the, liaematoma of, 422 ; in- flammation of, 375 ; syphilitic nodes in, 374 ; tumours of, 423. Duration- of cancer of the stomach, 958 ; of chorea, 209 ; of simple meningitis, 376 ; of spinal meningitis, 628; of tubercular meningitis, 395 ; of loco- motor ataxy, 682 ; of spinal congestion, 650 ; of tetanus, 668 ; of ulcer of the stomach, 938 ; of wasting palsy, 340. Dysesthesia, in hysteria, 90. Dysentery, causing abscess of the brain, 751. Dyspepsia, 817 et seq. ; atonic, 826 ; secondary to alcoholism, 155, 900; to hypochondriasis, 72; to hysteria, 95; a cause of vertigo, 177 ; diagnosis of, from tubercular meningitis, 400 ; re- lation of, to pulmonary phthisis, 896. Dyspnoea, in atonic dyspepsia, 829; in chronic gastritis, 896 ; in hysteria, 91 ; in myelitis, 637 ; in mercurial poison- ing, 356 ; in spinal congestion, 648 ; in spinal meningitis, 626 ; in tetanus, 656. Eak, disease of the, a cause of convulsions in children, 266; of abscess of the brain, 569, 573 ; of meningitis, 375 ; of vertigo, 181. Eccentric convulsions, 298, 433. Eccentricity, distinction of, from in- sanity, 46. Echinococci in the brain, 511. Eclampsia, 265, 270. Ecstasjq article on, 208; including va- rieties and symptoms, 208; treatment, 211. Eczema, due to dyspepsia, 895. Education, injudicious, a cause of insanity, 13 ; of hysteria, 103. Electric chorea, 191. Electric irritability and sensibility of muscles, in general paralysis of the in- sane, 41, 699 ; in general spinal para- lysis, 700 ; in hysteria, 94; in essential paralysis, 709 ; in locomotor ataxy, 679 ; in muscular anaesthesia, 329 ; in myelitis, 637 ; in softening of the brain, 456 ; in spinal congestion, 649; in torticollis, 793 ; wasting palsy, 340. Electricity, value of, in treatment of chorea, 219 ; ot hysteria, 106; of infantile paralysis, 711; of locomotor ataxy, 685 ; of mercurial poisoning, 361; of muscular anaesthesia, 333 ; of myelitis, 644 ; of neuralgia, 768 ; of paralysis agitans, 240 ; of torticollis, 796; of wasting palsy, 350 ; of writer’s cramp, 251. Elimination of alcohol from the system, 146, 147 (with note). Embarras gastrique, 868 (with note), 870 ; treatment of, 885. Embolism, of cerebral arteries, in chorea, 198 ; a cause of convulsions, 285, 289; of softening of the brain, 465 ; of the arteries of the stomach, a cause of ulcer, 927. Emetics, in treatment of acute gastritis, 885 ; dangerous in ulcer of the stomach, 947. Emotion, sudden, a cause of catalepsy, 115; of epilepsy, 298; of gastritis, 868 ; of hypochondriasis, 78; of in- , sanity, 13 ; of paralysis agitans, 234; of somnambulism,. 124. Emprosthotonos, in tetanus, 655. Empyema, chronic, causing abscess of the brain, 570. Entozoa in the brain, 511 ; in the spinal cord, 715 ; in the intestines, a cause of asthma, 785; of catalepsy, 117; of spasms, 783. Epidemic gastritis, 865. Epilepsia mitior, 302 ; gravior, 303 ; abor- tiva, 310. Epilepsy, article on, 292 ; including definition, ib. ; synonyms, 293 ; natural history, ib. ; causes, 294; symptoms, 301 ; relation between the symptoms, 314; complications, 316; pathology, 317 ; diagnosis, 318 ; prognosis, 321 ; treatment, 322. Epilepsy, diagnosis of, in children, 270 ; connexion with catalepsy, 117 ; dia- gnosis of, from hysteria, 101 ; followed by mania, 14 ; a sequela of sunstroke, 142. Epileptic aphasia, 278 ; aura, 277, 305 ; hemiplegia, 279 ; mania, 316. Epileptiform attacks, from chronic alco- holism, 156 ; influence of, on prognosis of mania, 58 ; see also “Convulsions.” Epistaxis, premonitory of cerebral haemor- rhage, 551, 554. Erectile tumours in the brain, 506. Erethism of the stomach (Trousseau), S44. Erosions, haemorrhagic, in the stomach, SSI, 901.