Nomenclature of diseases

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 - 210 páginas
 

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Página xxi - In returning cases of puerperal fever, the more important local lesions, such as peritonitis, effusions into serous and synovial cavities, phlebitis, and diffuse suppuration, should be specified.
Página xix - 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 ix - 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 5 - Purpnra is a disease not unusually attended by fever, characterised by purple spots of effused blood, which are not effaced by pressure, and are of small size, except where they run together in patches. By some purpura has been considered identical with scurvy, and been named
Página xxiii - 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 ix - 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 x - Nairue, in consequence of a letter addressed to the College by the Hospitals Committee of the Epidemiological Society, ' That a Committee be appointed to prepare a Nomenclature of Diseases, and that such Committee have full power to co-operate with other bodies.
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 xix - Typhoid fever (definition) — 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 vii - Among the great ends of such a uniform nomenclature must be reckoned that of fixing definitely, for all places, the things about which medical observation is exercised, and of forming a steady basis upon which medical experience may be safely built.

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