Lectures on the principles and practice of physic : delivered at King's College, London / by Thomas Watson.

  • Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet
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1848
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    LECTURE XXXV. Epilepsy. Its Symptoms and varieties 5 duration and recurrence of the paroxysms ; periods of life at which they commence ; warnings. Effects of the paroxysms, immediate and ultimate. Pathology. Anatomical characters 379 LECTURE XXXVI. Epilepsy continued. Recapitulation. Exciting causes. Simulated epilepsy. Diagnosis. Prognosis. Treatment: during the fit; during the Intervals ; during the Warnings .... 388 LECTURE XXXVII. Chorea. Symptoms ; Pathology ; Complications ; Causes ; Treatment. Chronic Chorea. Other Nervous Disorders to which the same name has been applied 399 LECTURE XXXVIII. Paralysis Agitans. Mercurial Tremor. Hysteria ; Two Forms of Hysteric Paroxysm ; Diagnosis from Epilepsy; Class of persons most liable to Hysteria; Diseases apt to be simulated by Hysteria ; Treatment; Prevention. Salaam Convulsions [note] 410 LECTURE XXXIX. Catalepsy. Ecstasy. Neuralgia; Tic Douloureux ; Sciatica 5 Hemicrania 424 LECTURE XL. Intermittent Fever. Phenomena of an Ague Fit. Species and varieties of Intermittents. Predisposing causes. Exciting cause. Malaria : known only by its effects ; places which it chiefly infests ; conditions of its production ; its effects upon the human body ; influence of soils in evolving it 435 LECTURE XLI. Ague, continued. Speculations respecting its periodicity. Habits and properties of the malaria ; most noxious at night; lies near the ground ; is carried along by winds; cannot pass across water ; attaches itself to trees ; is diminished by the increase of cultivation and of population. Ultimate effects of the poison on the body. Ague formerly thought salu- tary. Prognosis. Propriety of stopping the disease 447 LECTURE XLII. Treatment of Intermittent Fever ; during the paroxysm ; during the intermissions. Prophy- laxis 457 LECTURE XLIII. Epistaxis. Bronchocele ; Cretinism ; their Phenomena and probable Causes. Medical and* Surgical Treatment of Bronchocele 467 LECTURE XLIV. Cynanche Parotidsea. Spontaneous Salivation. Aphthae ; pathology of [note]. Cynanche Tonsillaris 479 LECTURE XLV. Acute Laryngitis. Symptoms. Treatment 5 Blood-letting. Tracheotomy, Mercury, Anti- mony. Anatomical Characters of the Disease. Causes. Secondary Laryngitis. CEdema of the Glottis. Chronic affections of the Larynx 491 LECTURE XLVI. Cynanche Trachealis : Symptoms 5 Pathology ; Prognosis ; Treatment. Tracheotomy [note]. Child-crowing, or Spurious Croup. Spasmodic Laryngitis [note]. Nocturnal periodic Cough [note] 502 LECTURE XLVII. Diseases of the Thorax. General observations. Dyspnoea. Cough. Methods of exploring the physical conditions of the Chest, by the senses of sight, touch and hearing 517
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