Essay on the effects of iodine on the human constitution : with practical observations on its use in the cure of bronchocele, scrophula, and the tuberculous diseases of the chest and abdomen / by W. Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, William, 1793-1867.
Date:
1824
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    number in young nubile girls. In the latter cases the disease generally excites some hysterical symptoms. This affection differs from chorea. The patient has no difficulty in keeping the affected limbs steady, if not called upon to exert them,' and in general exertion is irksome and painful. Like chorea, how- ever, it is always attended with a constipated condition of bowels. The evacuations, also, are uniformly hard, scybulous, and dark coloured. There is certainly a considerable resemblance between the two diseases, but it would be too much to assert that what has been called their proximate cause, or their nature, is the same. Such an idea, however, has been adopted by more than one physician who has seen these cases along with myself. I mention this, not in order to give weight to the opinion, but in order to give my readers a more distinct notion of the form, which the affection] we have been consider- ing sometimes assumes. A statement of this kind is more graphical than many de- scriptions.