Pathological researches on phthisis / Tr. from the French, with introduction, notes, additions, and an essay on treatment, by Charles Cowan. Rev. and altered by Henry I. Bowditch.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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    a groat measure upon (be existence of pectoriloquy, 210, 211 ; importance of percussion .it thi< r>'■ i i'■ • I : it alone is sufficient lor the diagnosis, 210 ; how pectoriloqu] may be insufficient to indicate the existence of a tuberculous cavity, 211, \i ; Trans, note, 203. Diarrhtea. Commences at different epoch, 103 ; the intestinal ulcera- tions are small when it commences late in the disease, 196 ; they are small when ii has been long and intermittent, 198; it seems at times to be merely an altered secretion, 1117, 2S0, xx. Diatcordium. Given in diarrhoea; its effects, 152 Duodenum. Ordinarily healthy; rarely ulcerated; Its crypts arc not oftener enlarged when the liver is fatty, than when it is healthy, 72. Duration of phthisis generally, 169, 170; in men ami in women, 170. Dura Mater. Is often divided at its upper part, which divisions give passage to arachnoid* in ranulations, 139. Dyspncea. Its degree ; iu commencement in phthisis, 185; exists times from childhood, 186,196; point ol Ihe chest to which it is usually referred, 186. E. Emaciation. Its commencement, 199 ; In ea its progress is verj rapid; infere is to be drawn from it; attacks all the tissues of the body, 200, Emphysema. <M the external cellular membrane rare in chronic dis- eases, 184, vii ; emph} * in.i hi the lit i r u!l more rare, 186, 187, \ ii. Epiglottis, (a frequently ulcerated in phthisical patients; the propor- tion, n>; these ulcerations exisl most frequently on the laryngeal face, it, and are more frequent i Bll than in women , they arc peculiar to phthisi- cal patients, 18; their symptoms, 219, \ii. xlv; is sometimes entirely de- stroyed, 2.'.), xiii. Epiploon, Contains at times tuberculous or semi-transparent matter, 135, vii; its mode of development, 137. Fvbro-cartUages of the Trachea. At times solution of their continuity in eases ol deep ulceration of the trachea, 249, 251, xvi. /'mm. Origin and duration verj variable; circumstances which cause its varieties, 1*9 •. its cause, 189, 190; symptoms of continued fever in a patient in the last stages of phthisis and in extreme debility, 134, 185, \. Fever, Continued- Seal of the ulcers of the intestine in these cases, 77. Functions. May be deranged for a long time without any sensible alter- ation in the organs which perform them, for example, digestion, 280,281, 322; exhalation from the skin, 193.