The Homeopathic Practice of Surgery, Together with Operative Surgery (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...their common neglect--contingencies and measures after opening. BBONCHOCELE OR GOITER. This disease consists is a preternaturally enlarged thyroid gland. It prevails very extensively in Switzerland and other mountainous parts of Europe. It is found in the United States, everywhere, hut more frequently in low districts and near the great lakes, where the atmosphere is moist and the soil rich. Individuals of all ages and of both sexes are subject to this disease, but females are by far the most frequently affected with it. It rarely occurs in children before the tenth year, nor is it likely to commence in very old persons. Persons of light fair skin, of relaxed constitutions, light hair, large light eyes and precocious intellects, in short, of the scrofulous habit, are most likely to have goiter. The memory of the child is often very vigorous, and the whole mind in point of development several years ahead of its age. But when goiter appears, a sudden change frequently comes over the mind. Often in bad cases, as the disease progresses, the countenance becomes more pallid, and changes from the brilliant intellectual appearance to a dull unmeaning aspect; the eyes lose their luster and assume a vacant look. Intellectual development seems to be nearly arrested. If it become very large, respiration is more or less obstructed and difficult; the voice changes, and articulation is indistinct. The intermarriage of persons affected with goiter, is likely to result in the production of the disease in their offspring. Usually the goiter diminishes in cold dry weather, but on the return of warm moist weather it enlarges. In some countries it affects horses, cattle, dogs and sheep. It begins by a small tumor on one or both sides of the trachea. It may occupy...