Researches on primary pathology, and the origin and laws of epidemics v. 2, Volume 2The author, 1858 |
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acid affected afflicted animal antiscorbutic appeared attacked bilious blight blood body carbon cause of scurvy chemistry cholera cold condition constitution costive cure defective alimentation diarrhoea diet dietary digestion disease disorders distemper doctrine dropsy dyscrasia dysentery elements epidemic epiphenomena especially Eugalenus fact famine fatal fetid fibrin fluids flux forms of disease frequent fresh fruits gums Haslar hospital hemorrhages Hippocrates impaired nutrition inlaid Irish famine juice legs lime Lind Lind's livid malady malignant matter medicines mineral months morbid mortality nature nosologist nosology nursing sore mouth nutrition nutritive function observed old authors pain patient pestilence pestilential period phenomena physicians plague pleurisy potash potato prevailed primary pathology produced purging putrid quantity raged remarkable remedies rheumatism salts says scorbutic diathesis scurvy scurvy-grass seasons sometimes spots spring summer swelling symptoms theory tion tissues truth typhus ulcers unity of disease urine views weather whole winter yellow fever
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Pagina 24 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Pagina 261 - ... deserve a more particular enumeration. These common appearances are large discoloured spots dispersed over the whole surface of the body, swelled legs, putrid gums, and, above all, an extraordinary lassitude of the whole body, especially after any exercise, however inconsiderable ; and this lassitude at last degenerates into a proneness to swoon, and even die, on the least exertion of strength, or even on the least motion.
Pagina 261 - This disease, so frequently attending long voyages, and so particularly destructive to us, is surely the most singular and unaccountable of any that affects the human body. Its symptoms are inconstant and innumerable, and its progress and effects extremely irregular...
Pagina 232 - The effect of the delusion was really astonishing : for many quickly and perfectly recovered. Such as had not moved their limbs for a month before were seen walking the streets sound, upright, and in perfect health.
Pagina 262 - But a most extraordinary circumstance, and what would be scarcely credible upon any single evidence, is, that the scars of wounds which had been for many years healed, were forced open again by this virulent distemper : Of this, there was a remarkable instance...
Pagina 263 - ... who died in the boats, on their being exposed to the fresh air. The greatest part of our sick were so infirm, that we were obliged to carry them out of the ship in their hammocks, and to convey them afterwards in the same manner from the water-side to their tents, over a stony beach.
Pagina 27 - the person whom you and Dr. sent home to die last year. I am quite well, and I thought I would come and show myself to you.
Pagina 262 - Centurion, who had been wounded above fifty years before at the battle of the Boyne; for though he was cured soon after, and had continued well for a great number of years past, yet on his being attacked by the scurvy, his wounds, in the progress of his disease, broke out afresh, and appeared as if they had never been healed: nay, what is still more astonishing, the...
Pagina 261 - Indeed it was most remarkable, in all our reiterated experience of this malady, that whatever discouraged our people, or at any time damped their hopes, never failed to add new vigor to the distemper: for it usually killed those who were in the last stages of it, and confined those to their hammocks who were before capable of some kind of duty.
Pagina 314 - ... been found some conformity in the symptoms, the order of their appearance has been totally different. However, though it frequently puts on the form of many other diseases, and is therefore not to be described...