Birmingham Medical Review Volume 37 (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.1895 Excerpt: ... well-marked knobs or projections. The surfaces of these latter were quite smooth, and the whole organ had a fanciful resemblance to a conglomerate stone, or an ovarian multiple cyst. The right and left lobes were united by a very narrow isthmus. On section, lobular cirrhosis was found, with proliferation of bile ducts, great engorgement of hepatic capillaries, and advanced fatty degeneration. There was no history of alcohol, but as his mother was a very disreputable character, it is likely that he might have been brought up on spirits, and that supposing him to have had originally the pot-belly of rickets with hepatic and splenic enlargement, and that cirrhosis followed on the rickety enlargement, this sequence may have determined the planes of contraction to take place as they had done in this case, instead of as they do in hobnailed liver. Case 3. Another example of cirrhotic change in young people, being kidneys removed on the previous evening from a girl, aged 14, showing advanced cirrhosis, weighing i4 oz. each. The girl was stated never to have been ill until a week before admission, when I saw her as out-patient complaining of anaemic symptoms. The day before admission she developed urjemic dyspnoea, and on admission had scanty urine with five per cent, urea, and died the following day. Bilharzia Hcematobia.--Vix. Douglas Stanley read notes of a case of bilharzia. The patient was a man, aged 26, who had lived for two years at Port Elizabeth. A year after his arrival he was attacked by a skin eruption, which he compared to nettle stings Shortly after, he began to pass blood in the urine. He had always been careful about his food and drink, but was fond of bathing. This he did in the sea, the nearest fresh water being a half-mile off--a small river. Th...

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Imprint:	General Books LLC
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Books Group
Creators:	General Books
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-154-26643-6
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LSN:	1-154-26643-5
Barcode:	9781154266436

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