The London Medical Journal (Volume 3, No. 1); By a Society of Physicians (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. 1783. Excerpt: ... He begins with an history of the symptoms and progress of the disease, which he traces through the three stages (intq which he divides it) of inflammation, suppuration, and diarrh a.--Speaking of the whiteness of the teeth, which has been mentioned by Dr. Simmons in his work on consumptions as a distinguishing characteristic of the genuine phthisis, our author observes, that, altho' he has noticed this circumstance in some cases, it has, occurred very seldom; and in many patients he has attended, was entirely absent. This, however, is an acknowledgment that it does sometimes take place; and in the publication alluded to, it is spoken of, not as an invariable symptom of every species of consumption, but as a circumstance that occurs only in the greater number of cases of genuine phthisis. But allowing, with Dr. Reid, that it takes place only in the smaller number pf cases, still in these it will not, on that account, be less deserving the attention of the physician. If this whiteness, of the teeth happens only in one consumptive patient of a hundred, and it is proved that whenever it does occur tubercles are actually formed, it.will surely throw great light on the diagnosis in. these cases. In a disease like consumption, where the maxim of principi: ebsta ', has has been so uniformly inculcated, this symptom, when it presents itself, may prove of infinite importance. Dr. Reid presents us with some interesting observations on the formation and progress of tubercles, for which he acknowledges himself indebted to the MSS. of the late Dr. Stark, whose ingenious enquiries on this and other subjects we lrave long wished to fee published Tubercles, we are told, are commonly found in clusters. On cutting into them they appear of a white, smooth, cartilaginous...