The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • William Howship Dickinson
Date:
1888
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Credit: The tongue as an indication in disease : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1888 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BECOMING BARE: CLINICAL CONDITIONS re stretching. How this stretching had been produced was made evident by an examination of the deeper parts of the tongue, where a large granular exudation was irregularly dis- posed between the muscular fibres. I give sketches showing the levelled surface, the adjoining partially detached papille, and the interstitial intrusion to which the swelling was due. 9. FuRRED oR ENCRUSTED, BECOMING DENUDED ; GENERALLY Dry. Tetanus é Syphilitic mania . Valvular disease . Pneumonia . Cirrhosis r Dysentery, Riese of teens Cancer of pancreas, &c. Peritonitis, fecal extravasation .. Typhoid Pyemia Fh ek fet ek pe (Total . ; ‘ : 2 . 18) PartricuLaRS RELATING To PRECEDING CASES. Pyrexia (temp. 102° to 104°) . Hyperpyrexia (over 104°) No observations as to temperature. Average temperature in 10 cases Much prostration . Prostration not severe Chiefly on liquid diet : Strictly limited to liquid diet . No food by mouth (fed by rectum) . Dry diet . ° ; Saliva observed as defioiant : Died, 10; recovered, 1; Peitved: je iat reloads 1. ° = (==) — a Dwre oOo moons | J] ' Mouth invariably dry, but special observations on saliva not generally made, or practicable.
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