A Dictionary of Practical Medicine: Comprising General Pathology ...Harper., 1848 |
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abdomen action acute affected apoplexy appeared asthenic attack attended black vomit blood blood-letting body bowels brain bullæ calomel camphor capsicum causes changes chiefly Cholera chronic circumstances colour commencement congestion connexion constitutional diarrhoea digestive disease disorder distemper doses effusion endemic epidemic epigastrium eral eruption especially evacuations exciting extended external fatal favourable fluid frequently functions glands hemiplegia infection inferred inflammation inflammatory influence instances intestines iodide irritation lesion less limbs liver lymph malady malignant means membrane ment mercury morbid mucous muscles nature nerves nervous New-York observed occur opium organs owing pain palsy pancreas paralysis paraplegia parotids partial particularly patient pellagra pemphigus period periosteum periostitis peritoneal cavity peritoneum peritonitis persons pestilence pestilential prevailed produced pulse purgatives rarely remarkable remittent scrofulous secretion serous serum sion skin sometimes spinal chord stage stomach substance surface symptoms tion tissue treatment tumours usually vascular vessels viscera viscus vital vomiting warm yellow fever
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Page 137 - ... shock received by, and the depression of, the vital energy of the frame in the early stage, partly from the congested condition of the large veins and important viscera, and partly, if not chiefly, from the alterations which had taken place in the blood during the early stages of the malady. F. The effluvium or seminium, which propagates the distemper, is generated in the progress of the .changes produced in the blood, and is emanated or discharged from the mucous surfaces of the lungs and digestive...
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