Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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as I tavo frequently witnessed^ scarcely reckon any deviation from the healthy state. To avoid overlooking, not one, but many, of these (enlarged?) glands often requires very minute attention. The other objections I shall leave to be answered by the facts about to be adduced, only remarking that the removal by absorption of the morbid matter from the follicles is a very rare termination, even in typhoid fever. Chomel mentions two cases in which that process had probably taken place,^ and I cannot see why it should be more common and more speedy in typhus. The first of the following tables refers to the number of follicles met with in the small gut; the second to their state of development. Diarrlioea. Tympanites. Abdominal pain. State of follicles. No. of enlarged follicles. Cases. Spontaneous. Consecutive. Constipation. Slight. Considerable. 0 Slight. Acute. None. Elevated. Very slightly so. Not elevated. Scarcely seen. None . I to 5 5 to lo lo to 15 15 to 20 20 to 30 30 to 40 40 to 50 I 4 4 4 3 4 I I I 2 I I 3 I 2 I I I 2 I 3 I I I I I I 2 2 2 2 I I 4 I 4 2 2 3 3 I I I 2 I 2 2 3 I 2 2 I 4 2 22 4 10 8 6 6 10 9 9 4 2 8 5 6 Intestinal follicles. Distinctly elevated in Very slightly elevated Not elevated Scarcely seen Cases 21 Diarrhoea. a o O 10 o O Tympanites. 53 r2 tn a o o a o II Abdominal pain. 2 3 3 I B o ^ Obsei-v. 14 and 15, pp. 169, 173.