Twentieth century practice v. 4, 1895, Volume 4Sampson Low, Marston, 1895 |
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action acute affected anæmia aneurysm angina pectoris aorta aortic valves apex arteriosclerosis atheroma atrophy attacks auricle autopsy become blood cardiac cause cavity changes chest chronic chylous circulation condition congenital connection contraction coronary arteries course cretinism cyanosis death diagnosis diastolic digitalis dilatation dose dulness dyspnoea effusion embolism endocarditis enlargement especially exophthalmic exophthalmic goitre fact fatty degeneration fever fibres fluid frequently goitre heart disease heart failure heart muscle hemorrhage hypertrophy increase infection inflammation insufficiency kidney left ventricle lungs lymph manifest micro-organisms mitral valve murmur muscular myocarditis myxedema nerve nervous normal observed obstruction occur oedema orifice pain palpitation patient pericarditis pericardium phlebitis present pressure produce prognosis pulmonary artery pulsation pulse reported result rheumatism right ventricle rupture signs skin sometimes sound stasis stenosis sternum sudden symptoms syphilis systolic tachycardia thickened thoracic thyroid gland tion tissue treatment tricuspid tuberculosis tumor typhoid usually valve lesions veins venous vessels wall
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Page 493 - Place the patient in the erect position and direct him to close his mouth and elevate his chin to the fullest extent, then grasp the cricoid cartilage between the finger and thumb, and use gentle upward pressure on it, when, if dilatation or aneurism' exist, the pulsation of the aorta will be distinctly felt transmitted through the trachea to the hand. The act of examination will increase laryngeal distress should this accompany the disease.
Page 230 - ... magnitude even that small segment of our globe which extends a hundred miles on every side of us ; much less the globe as a whole. The piece of rock on which we stand can be mentally represented with something like completeness : we...
Page 383 - The diagnosis of hysteria as the base upon which symptoms are built is not a matter of the recognition of a disease, but of distinguishing an individual symptom whether this or that symptom is of hysterical origin or nature. The most essential thing in excluding hysteria is the recognition of the symptoms of organic disease. Most organic diseases have symptoms which hysteria may imitate, but they have also symptoms which hysteria cannot imitate. Thus hysteria may imitate tuberculosis.
Page 689 - In these early stages of the disease it is not always easy to come to a conclusion as to the true nature of the case, for...
Page 665 - At the age of seven weeks, when the child came under treatment, there was a lobulated swelling the size of a hen's egg situated on the left side of the neck between the mastoid process and the middle line in front.
Page 509 - In recorded cases the pad of the tourniquet has been made to compress the vessel just above the umbilicus and a little to the left of the middle line.
Page 159 - In the moment of stooping he was seized with a violent pain in the region of the heart, and a severe attack of dyspnoea.
Page 727 - It has occurred to me that it would be worth while to try the hypodermic injection of an emulsion or extract of the thyroid gland of a sheep.
Page 110 - ... used to soak his pocket handkerchief in the amyl and go to sleep with it lying on his face, without any ill results.