The Nomenclature of diseases adopted by the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, on the recommendation of the Medical boards of Bellevue, Charity, and Infants' hospitals for the hospitals of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, December, 1869

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Página 6 - A continued fever, communicable by contagion, occurring in connection with child-birth, and often associated with extensive local lesions, especially of the uterine system.
Página 41 - Disease is a morbid condition of the kidneys; the term is "generic," and includes "several forms of acute and chronic disease of the kidney, usually associated with albumen in the urine, and frequently with Dropsy, and with various secondary diseases resulting from deterioration of the blood.
Página 4 - A continued fever, characterised by the presence of rose-coloured spots, chiefly on the abdomen, and a tendency to diarrhoea, with specific lesion of the bowels.
Página 11 - INCOMPLETE CRETINISM — synonym, CURABLE CRETINISM. — A degree of cretinism in which the mental faculties, though limited, are capable of development ; the head is moderately well formed and erect, the special senses, the faculty of speech, and the reproductive powers are present.
Página 11 - A condition of imperfect development and deformity of the whole body, especially of the head. It is endemic in the valleys of certain mountainous districts, and. is attended by feebleness or absence of the mental faculties and special senses ; and is often associated with goitre.
Página 7 - A deposit or growth that tends to spread indefinitely into the surrounding structures, and in the course of the lymphatics of the part affected, and to reproduce itself in remote parts of the body.
Página 4 - In certain epidemics it is frequently accompanied by a profuse purpuric eruption, and, occasionally, by secondary effusions into certain joints. Lesions of the brain and spinal cord and their membranes are found on dissection.
Página 8 - A tumor usually commencing in the bones, consisting almost entirely of bone, and followed by similar growths in the glands and viscera. Note. — Cancer in mucous membranes, when covered by a villous growth, has received the name of Villous cancer.
Página 79 - Habitat : Tinea versicolor. Note. — To be returned amongst the parasitic diseases of the skin. 55. Microsporon mentagrophytes. (Gruby.) Habitat : Follicles of hair in Sycosis or Mentagra. . Note. — To be returned amongst the parasitic diseases of the skin. The foregoing list might be extended by the addition of various parasitic vegetations, which have been reported under the names of Algee, Fungi, Mycoderms, Leptomiti, &c., but the characters or the existence of which are still the subject of...
Página 8 - Cancer characterized by a smoothly-lobed surface, soft, irregular consistence, great vascularity, and usually rapid growth and reproduction. When ulcerated it protrudes in large masses, which bleed copiously.

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