Lectures on the principles and practice of physic : delivered at King's College, London / by Thomas Watson.
- Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1848
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Credit: Lectures on the principles and practice of physic : delivered at King's College, London / by Thomas Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LECTURE I. INTRODUCTOBY PAGE 17 LECTURE II. Pathology—meaning of the term. Pathology, general and special. Morbid alterations of the solid parts of the body. Alterations in bulk. Hypertrophy—law of its production— its effects. Atrophy—its causes and consequences. Changes in form. Alterations in consistence. Induration—its various kinds 25 LECTURE III. Softening; its causes and varieties. Transformations of Tissue ; Changes of situation—in the Chest, of the Lung, of the Heart—in the Abdomen and Pelvis, Hernia, Intussuscep- tion, Prolapsus , 33 LECTURE IV. Morbid alterations of the Fluids, especially of the Blood. Changes in its quantity and distri- bution. General and Local Plethora. Poverty of Blood. Active Congestion—its Phe- nomena—state of the Vessels, as seen by the Microscope. Mechanical Congestion. Pas- sive Congestion. Relations of these forms of Congestion to Inflammations—to Hemorrhages —to Dropsies 39 LECTURE V. Different modes of Dying. Pathology of Sudden Death. Death by Ansemia; its Course, Phenomena, and Anatomical Characters. Death by Asthenia; its Course, Phenomena, and Anatomical Characters. Syncope. Death by Inanition. Death by Apnoea: Death by Coma: their Course and Phenomena, and the Anatomical Characters common to both. Application of the Principles obtained from the investigation of the Phenomena of Sudden death, in elucidating the Symptoms and Tendencies of Disease 48 LECTURE VI. Causes of Disease: distinction between predisposing and exciting causes. Enumeration of causes, as connected with the Atmosphere—Food and Drink—Poisons—Exercise—Sleep —Mental and Moral Conditions—Hereditary Tendencies—Malformations. Temperature. Effects of Heat and of Cold 57 LECTURE VII. Causes of Disease, continued. Laws by which the operation of Cold upon the Bodily Health is regulated. Circumstances that favour its injurious Effects, and respect, first, the Body itself; secondly, the manner in which the Cold is applied. Modifying influence of certain states of the Mind—of Sleep—of Habit. Means of protection. Influence of the different Seasons. Impurity of the Air. Its influence in the production of Disease [wofe]. Heredi- tary tendencies to Disease 68 LECTURE VIII. Symptoms. Their Uses in relation to the Diagnosis, the Prognosis and the Treatment of Diseases. Signs, as distinguished from Symptoms. Pathognomonic, Commemorative, Direct and Indirect Symptoms. Examples of Symptoms as they consist of uneasy Sensa- tions, disordered Functions, or changes of Sensible Qualities 79 LECTURE IX. Inflammation. Its Morbid and its Salutary Effects. Sketch of the Local and Constitutional Phenomena of Inflammation as it occurs in External Parts. Examination of the Symp- toms of Inflammation ; Pain; Heat; Redness; Swelling. State of the Capillary Blood- vessels and of the Blood [note] in a part inflamed 92](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21037048_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
