Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1915
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Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the right side, affecting arm, leg, and face. The urine contains a cloud of albumen, but you find no casts or corpuscles, specific gravity about 1017°. The palpable and visible, rigid, tortuous, and uneven arteries testify more strongly than was formerly the case to arterial degeneration. The hard pulse and somewhat heaving heart-impulse indicate hypertrophy of the heart. This hemiplectic seizure makes it necessary for you to speak in a more decided tone. You tell him that he is lucky that his attack has not been worse, you say he is threatened with incurable paralysis, or with rapidly fatal apoplexy, and you give him to under¬ stand that his only chance of escaping these dangers consists in living a most abstemious life as to food in general, and in giving up alcohol altogether. He listens more attentively than he did on the former occasion, because he has found that your predictions come true ; he speaks as if he intended to reform, perhaps for a few weeks he does reform; he recovers clearness of speech, he regains the power of his limbs almost entirely, and you lose sight of him again for a time. Nothing is more dangerous for such a patient than
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