The nomenclature of diseases / drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1884
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    D The substitution of Epidemic Diarrhoea for Simple Cholera (17). of Splenic Fever for Malignant Pustule (26). of Osteo-arthritis for Chronic Osteo-arthritis (42). of Malignant New Growth, Non-Malignant New Growth, and Cyst, for Cancer (44), Colloid (45), Non-Malignant Tumours and Cysts (p. 19, et seq.), Lupus, and Rodent TTlcer. The list of the New Growths and Cysts to be removed from its present position and to be placed for reference at the end of the book, with the list of parasites, of poisons, of injuries, etc. The list of the processes of Syphilis and Tubercle, similarly, to be placed for reference at the end of the book. E The addition of Epidemic Rose-rash (Rotheln) (5), of Typho-malarial fever (17), of Malarial cachexia (23), of Myxoedema (68), of Parangi (71), of Leucocytheemia (76), of Haemophilia (77), of Idiopathic anaemia (75), of Glycosuria (79), of the effects of certain external and internal causes of disease. For the collection of names thus altered we have next to propose a new title. The term General Diseases fails to express the nature of the group which it heads. It is used apparently in the signification ''not local. The Latin translation, Morbi corporis universi, certainly conveys more clearly the idea intended. But even this term does not include all the species of the origmal or of the proposed group. We have, therefore, used a re- translation of the Latin, with an additional phrase to cover the cases not included by the term morbi corporis universi. Our proposed version is Diseases of the