Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg.
- Samuel Gee
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![upon them. Sometimes an enlarged spleen is the only sign of an active syphilitic cachexia. II. In Ague also it is sometimes the discovery of an enlarged spleen which first puts us upon the right scent, and enables us to detect the existence of ague which would otherwise be latent. III. Children, in whom we can all but positively deny the existence of syphilis or ague, occasionally acquire a greatly enlarged spleen, attended with a cachexia which is sometimes very profound. We can exclude leukaemia, lymphatic anaemia [lymph- denoma], rickets, purpura and primary disease of the liver, in the cases referred to; whence it is inferred, that children are subj ect to one or more cachexiae not yet defined, or else that the known cachexiae may present themselves shorn of all the usual signs by which they may be recognized. For the cases in question, the name of Simple Splenic Cachexia is proposed: a condition which seems to be analogous to lymphatic anaemia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31355912_0177.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
