Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1902
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    bear the marks of past syphilis upon them. Sometimes an enlarged spleen is the only sign of an active syphilitic cachexia. II. In Ague also it is sometimes the dis- covery 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 aneemia [lymphdenoma], rickets, purpura and primary disease of the liver, in the cases referred to ; whence it is inferred, that children are subject to one or more cachexia not yet defined, or else that the known cachexiae may present themselves shorn utterly of all the signs by which they may be recognised. For the cases in question, the name of Simple Splenic Cachexia is proposed : a condition which seems to be analogous to lymphatic anaemia.
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