Commentaries, Principally on Some Diseases of Females which are in Their Nature and Origin Constitutional

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Seeley and Burnside, 1830 - 266 頁
 

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第 7 頁 - The effects of remedies on a disease, if accurately observed, form the most important part of its history ; they are like chemical tests, frequently detecting important differences in objects which previously appeared exactly similar.
第 255 頁 - Sometimes the disorder comes on so gradually and insensibly that the patient is hardly aware of its commencement. He perceives that he is sooner tired than usual, and that he is thinner than he was ; but yet he has nothing material to complain of. In process of time, his appetite becomes seriously impaired : his nights are sleepless ; or, if he gets sleep, he is not refreshed by it. His face becomes visibly extenuated, or perhaps acquires a bloated look. His tongue is white, and he suspects that...
第 260 頁 - Of the various immediate causes to which this malady may owe its commencement, there is none more frequent than a common cold. When the body is predisposed to this change, any occasion of feverish excitement, and a privation of rest at the same time, will readily induce it.
第 12 頁 - The female sex," one physician explained in 1827, "is far more sensitive and susceptible than the male, and extremely liable to those distressing affections which, for want of some better term, have been denominated nervous, and which consist chiefly in painful affections of the head, heart, side, and indeed, of almost every part of the system.
第 256 頁 - In process of time his appetite becomes seriously impaired ; his nights are sleepless, or, if he get sleep, he is not refreshed by it. His face becomes visibly extenuated, or perhaps acquires a bloated look. His tongue is white, and he suspects that he has fever. If he ask advice, his pulse is found quicker than it should be, and he acknowledges that he has felt pains...
第 256 頁 - Y 2 urine, urine, nor any other sensible failure in the action of th* abdominal viscera, excepting that the bowels are more sluggish than they used to be. " Sometimes the head-ach is accompanied with vertigo ; and sometimes severe rheumatic pains, as the patient believes them, to be, are felt in various parts of the body, and in the limbs ; but, on inquiry, these have not the ordinary seat, nor the common accompaniments of rheumatism, and seem rather to take the course of the nerves, than of the...
第 256 頁 - If he asks advice, his pulse is found quicker than it should be, and he acknowledges that he has felt pains occasionally in his head and chest, and that his legs are disposed to swell ; yet there is no deficiency in the quantity of his urine, nor any other sensible failure in the action of the abdominal viscera, excepting that the bowels are more sluggish than they used to be.
第 260 頁 - I should observe, that though this climacteric disease is sometimes equally remarkable in women as in men, yet most certainly I have not noticed it so frequently, nor so well characterized in females.
第 163 頁 - A patient who is suffering from the irritable uterus complains of pain in the lowest part of the abdomen, along the brim of the pelvis, and often also in the loins. The pain is worse when she is up and taking exercise, and less when she is at rest in the horizontal posture ; in this respect it resembles that of prolapsus uteri, but there is this difference, that in the latter, if the patient lies down, she soon becomes quite easy, but...
第 19 頁 - It is a point which 1 have ascertained by repeated observation, that, after a certain duration of a disordered state of the digestion and of the general health, and...

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