Lectures: chiefly clinical.

  • Chambers, Thomas King, 1818-1889.
Date:
1864
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    conclusions wliicli independent observation may supply. T will point out a few of the more obvious sources of knowledge whicli may help us to the required end. First for deficiencies of nutrition or form-building. The morbid phenomena capable of being classed under this head are doubtless to be found most purely displayed by starvation and loss of blood in otherwise healthy bodies. The labours of M. Chossat and Dr. Marshall Hall have almost exhausted these subjects, and are easily accessible to all. We find fully established by M. Chossat's^ rigorous experi- ments on healthy animals certain phenomena as resulting from the deprivation of food, and therefore as resulting from the arrest of continuous growth by the want of its material. They course, ■wliicli includes general pathology, and consequently tlie principles of therapeutics 'Of wliole of blood—Hajmor- rhage, transudation. Of pari of blood—Serous dis- cliarges, sero-fibrinous ditto, anffimic, albuminuria, &c. Uraemia, asphyxia, jaundice, lithic acid and oxalic acid diathesis, &c. 1. Common poisons. 2. Morbid poisons. ' (1.) Of blastemas—Mucus, pus, tubercle. (2.) Of cartilage-celts—cancer and some other tumoui's. (3.) Of white fbrous tissue— Cirrhosis, false membranes, granular kidneys, contract- ing scars, &c. Retrograde clmnge into less vital tissue, or degenerations, fibrinous, waxy, fatty, chalky, or mineral, &c. - Foreign additions ... Parasites. In the second part of the course these changes are arranged auatomically. * 'T?echcrches exporimentales sur I'inanition.' Paris, 1843. MoiiBiD Changes IN Tltjids Loss of normal con- stituents ' Abnormal retention of excretions Morbid Changes IN Solids Foreign additions ... Arrests of develop- ment into Jiormal ■{ tissue