Lectures on clinical medicine, delivered at the Hotel-Dieu, Paris v.1, 1867, Volume 1Lindsay and Blakiston, 1867 |
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acute admitted affected afterwards Agnes ward angina pectoris Aphasia apoplexy articular asphyxia asthma attack became Bernard ward brain catarrh cause cerebral fever cerebral hæmorrhage chest child chorea complaint complete condition contraction convulsions cough cure degree delirium disappeared disease disorders doses Duchenne Duchenne de Boulogne dyspnoea eclampsia epilepsy epileptic exophthalmic extreme eyes face fact felt fingers frequently frontal gentlemen gland hæmorrhage hand heart hemiplegia hooping-cough hospital impairment individuals influence instances intellect intervals larynx Lastly legs lesion less lobe locomotor ataxy look lower limbs manifestations marked months movements muscles nerve nervous neuralgia neurosis never normal observed occurred organic pain paroxysms patient perfectly phenomena posterior pretty progressive muscular atrophy rabies recurred seemed seized seizures sensation sensibility side sight skin soft palate sometimes spasm strabismus suddenly suffering symptoms thyroid tion tissue tongue treatment vertigo violent Vitus's dance walk whilst woman
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Page 389 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 262 - A few days previously he had suddenly lost his senses, and had been unconscious for nearly an hour. When he came round, he exhibited no symptom of paralysis, but could not articulate a single word. He moved his tongue perfectly — he swallowed with ease, but, however much he tried, he could not utter a word.
Page 61 - ... are found in the neighbourhood of the point of starting of the aura. If no indication of this kind can be furnished by the persons who have seen the fits, it will be well to try the application of a very powerful galvanic current, with dry conductors, on the various parts of the skin, when the patient expects to have a fit. I have in this way twice ascertained the point of starting of an unfelt aura : a fit has been produced by the galvanization of certain parts of the skin.
Page 211 - ... section of all the posterior roots of the spinal nerves in frogs, the voluntary movements seem to be very nearly as perfect as if no operation had been performed, and that if the skin of the head is pinched on one side, the posterior limb on the same side tries to repel the cause of the pain as well as if no injury had been made. I have also ascertained that in frogs rendered blind, these experiments give the same results.
Page 690 - ... In the dog, as we have observed, the peculiar sensation in the seat of the inoculation has at times caused the animal to gnaw the part most severely. With these local symptoms some general nervous disturbance is generally experienced. The patient becomes dejected, morose, irritable, and restless ; he either does not suspect his complaint, or, if he. remembers having been bitten, carefully avoids mentioning the circumstance, and searches for amusement away from home, or prefers solitude : bright...
Page 530 - Seymour, with his joints inflamed and swollen. One day his knees, which had been greatly swollen, became very much smaller and flaccid, and, coincidently with the subsidence of the swelling, he complained of pain in the head, became paralyied on one side, and expired in the course ot thirty-six hours.
Page 158 - A mother, while nursing her infant, was seized with a paralysis, attended with the loss of muscular power on one side of her body, and the loss of sensibility on the other. The surprising and, indeed, the alarming circumstance here was, that she could hold her child to her bosom with the arm which retained muscular power, only so long as she looked at the infant. If surrounding objects withdrew her attention from the state of her arm, the flexor muscles gradually relaxed, and the child was in danger...
Page 105 - I mean by simple epileptiform neuralg-ia. In another case, simultaneously with the accession of pain, all the muscles of one-half of the face are seen to be thrown into rapid convulsive action, and the attack, as in the preceding case, is over in about a minute. This is convulsive epileptiform neuralgia, or tic douloureux.
Page 603 - November 22, 1862. Her grandfather had been gouty, her mother suffered from violent neuralgias, and she herself had been subject to angina pectoris since she was sixteen years old. For the space of four years, she had only had excessively violent palpitation, without any sensation in the arm, but for the last four years the palpitation was accompanied by painless numbness of the left arm, which compelled her to drop whatever she might be holding in her hand. These symptoms recurred whenever she took...
Page 686 - A medical man tried, in vain, to calm his fears ; for several days he was excited and delirious. At last, being told over and over again, that persons seized with rabies died very rapidly, and that he could not, therefore, be rabid, since his dread of water dated already ten days back, he allowed himself to be persuaded, and his dread of water vanished (liv, I, p.