The Nomenclature of Diseases, Página 25

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Royal College of Physicians, 1869 - 327 páginas
 

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Página 5 - 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 viii - A good classification aids and simplifies the registration of diseases; helps towards a more easy comparison and knowledge of them, and towards the storing of experience respecting them ; and facilitates the discovery of general principles from the collected, grouped, and compared phenomena.
Página 11 - 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 ix - They correspond to the Zymotic diseases of Dr. Farr'g classification. " Section B comprises for the most part disorders which are apt to invade different parts of the same body simultaneously or in succession. These are sometimes spoken of as constitutional diseases, and they often manifest a tendency to transmission by inheritance.
Página 15 - Definition : 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 111 - Bright' s disease is a generic term, including 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 ix - Section A comprehends those disorders which appear to involve a morbid condition of the blood, and which present, for the most part, but not all of them, the following characters : They run a definite course, are attended with fever, and frequently with eruptions on the skin, are more or less readily communicable from person to person, and possess the singular and important property of generally protecting those who suffer them from a second attack. They are apt to occur epidemically.
Página v - ... inhabited portions of the globe. For the registration of such statistical facts it is clearly requisite that there should be a uniform Nomenclature of Diseases, co-extensive with the area of investigation ; and taking the largest area, the universal globe, the Nomenclature would need to be one that can be understood and used by the educated people of all nations. Among the great ends of such a uniform Nomenclature must be reckoned that of fixing definitely, for all places, the things about which...
Página 13 - A specific febrile disorder, characterised by non-suppurative inflammation, with considerable redness of certain joints — chiefly of the hands and feet, and, especially in the first attack, of the great toe — and attended with excess of uric acid in the blood.
Página 27 - 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.

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