Lectures on the diseases of the kidney, generally known as "Brights' disease", and dropsy / by S. J. Goodfellow.

  • Goodfellow, S. J. (Stephen Jennings)
Date:
1861
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Credit: Lectures on the diseases of the kidney, generally known as "Brights' disease", and dropsy / by S. J. Goodfellow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give the symptoms generally of all the different affec- tions and not proceed at once to the symptoms and signs peculiar, to some extent, to each individual affection. I do it for these reasons : first, because these affections have all some general characters in common; secondly and chiefly, because I wish you to record all the symptoms, so that you may recognise at once, in any case, any one of the affections coming under the general denomination of Bright^s disease; and, thirdly, that I may assist you in taking notes of, and recording these cases by intimating the questions that should be asked, and the inquiries and examina- tions that should be made in order the better to study them clinically. But here permit me to say that I shall not stop in my enumeration of the symptoms to explain the manner in which they are produced, nor the exact condition of the system of which they are the signs. I shall do this by and by more conveniently. 1. Anasarca—General Dropsy.—Although, if we study the symptoms attentively, we shall find that this symptom has, in nearly every case, been preceded by others less definite in their character, except, perhaps, in the very acute cases,—those, for example, that we call acute inflammatory dropsy (and in some of these the observation will be found to be applicable),— although, in general, these symptoms may be preceded by others less definite, such as more or less febrile excitement, a dry and harsh state of the skin, and a quick and hard pulse; yet, in a very large proportion