An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia, or indigeston / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1831
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Credit: An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia, or indigeston / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the joint is in a considerable degree owing to the thickening of the surrounding cellular sub- stance, tendons, and ligaments. In this, as in the former disease, there is seldom an oppor- tunity of examining the joint while the ca- vity remains entire; but sometimes the pain is so violent and unremitting, while the weakly frame of the patient is so little able to bear it, that the surgeon considers himself warranted to perform amputation; and then the following appearances are observed. The cartilage is of a dark colour, and seems as if eroded; there is very little fluid in the joint, indeed, I have seen it altogether wanting; the synovial membrane, except at the part where the cartilage is de- stroyed, may remain little altered, but much more frequently it is thickened and changed by the gelatinous degeneration which has been already described. There is ground for believ- ing, that, if this ulceration of the cartilage, as it is called, be arrested at an early stage of its progress, the parts affected may be restored completely to their natural state; but it much more frequently terminates in anchylosis or suppuration. In the latter case, amputation affords abundant opportunity of examining the
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