Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine Volume 20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...iv. 74S LUNGS, GANGRENE OF THE, v. 407; history and literature, 407; etiology, 408; influence of sex, 408; of age, 408; various canses of its origin, 409; interruption or weakness of the blood-current in the lungs, 409; croupous pneumonia, 409; embolism, 410; emboli from infective purulent centres, 410; gangrene from perforation into the lungs from neighboring parts, 411; from foreign bodies, 411; from stagnant contents of a cavity, 411; from lowering of the general nutrition, 411; from injury, 412; pathological anatomy, 412; the circumscribed form of gangrene, 412; its situation, 413; the size, form, and number, 413; mode of recovery, 413; bronchitis, 414; transition of circumscribed to the diffused form, 414; hemorrhage, 414; emboli causing metastatic abscesses, 414; affections of the pleura, 414; the diffuse form, 415; its general characteristics, 415; symptomatology, 415; the sputum, 416; its amount, 416; its characteristics, 416; chemical reactions, 417; microscopic appearances, 417; vibriones and other growths, 418; conditions of putrefaction, 419; the cough, 419; po iuon of the patient, 419; haemoptysis, 419; symptoms following pleurisy and pneumonia, 420; consequences of swallowing the putrid masses. 420; catarrh of the stomach, vomiting, and diarrhoea, 420; fever, 420; physical examination, 420; progress of the disease, 420; the diffuse form, 422; complications and terminations, 422; hemorrhage, 422; pleurisy, 422; pneumothorax, 422; rupture through the thoracic wall. 422; causes of death, 423; cases of imperfect recovery, 423; of complete recovery, 424; prognosis, 424; influence of age, constitution, and vigor, 424; of causes of the disease, 424; sit; nation of the disease, 425; it-size, 425; mfluence of complications....