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A SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE BY AMERICAN AUTHORS.

EDITED BY WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D., PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

ASSISTED BY LOUIS STARR, M.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN IN THE HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

VOLUME II. GENERAL DISEASES (CONTINUED) AND DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

PHILADELPHIA: LEA BROTHERS & CO.

1885.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by

LEA BROTHERS & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Philada.

WILLIAM J. DORNAN, Printer, Philada.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

GENERAL DISEASES (CONTINUED). PAGE RHEUMATISM. By R. PALMER HOWARD, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

GOUT. By W. H. DRAPER, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

RACHITIS. By ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

SCURVY. By PHILIP S. WALES, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

PURPURA. By I. EDMONDSON ATKINSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

DIABETES MELLITUS. By JAMES TYSON, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . 195

SCROFULA. By JOHN S. LYNCH, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

HEREDITARY SYPHILIS. By J. WILLIAM WHITE, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 254

DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

DISEASES OF THE MOUTH AND TONGUE. By J. SOLIS COHEN, M.D. . . . 321

DISEASES OF THE TONSILS. By J. SOLIS COHEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . 379

DISEASES OF THE PHARYNX. By J. SOLIS COHEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . 390

DISEASES OF THE OESOPHAGUS. By J. SOLIS COHEN, M.D. . . . . . . 409

FUNCTIONAL AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. By SAMUEL G. ARMOR, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

SIMPLE ULCER OF THE STOMACH. By W. H. WELCH, M.D. . . . . . . . 480

CANCER OF THE STOMACH. By W. H. WELCH, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 530

Part 2

HEMORRHAGE FROM THE STOMACH. By W. H. WELCH, M.D. . . . . . . . 580

DILATATION OF THE STOMACH. By W. H. WELCH, M.D. . . . . . . . . 586

MINOR ORGANIC AFFECTIONS OF THE STOMACH (Cirrhosis; Hypertrophic Stenosis of Pylorus; Atrophy; Anomalies in the Form and the Position of the Stomach; Rupture; Gastromalacia). By W. H. WELCH, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

INTESTINAL INDIGESTION. By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . . . . 620

CONSTIPATION. By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

ENTERALGIA (INTESTINAL COLIC). By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . 658

ACUTE INTESTINAL CATARRH (DUODENITIS, JEJUNITIS, ILEITIS, COLITIS, PROCTITIS). By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 667

CHRONIC INTESTINAL CATARRH. By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . . 699

CHOLERA MORBUS. By W. W. JOHNSTON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

INTESTINAL AFFECTIONS OF CHILDREN IN HOT WEATHER. By J. LEWIS SMITH, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

PSEUDO-MEMBRANOUS ENTERITIS. By PHILIP S. WALES, M.D. . . . . . 763

DYSENTERY. By JAMES T. WHITTAKER, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 777

TYPHLITIS, PERITYPHLITIS, AND PARATYPHLITIS. By JAMES T. WHITTAKER, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

INTESTINAL ULCER. By JAMES T. WHITTAKER, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . 823

HEMORRHAGE OF THE BOWELS. By JAMES T. WHITTAKER, A.M., M.D. . . 830

INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION. By HUNTER MCGUIRE, M.D. . . . . . . . . 835

CANCER AND LARDACEOUS DEGENERATION OF THE INTESTINES. By I. EDMONSON ATKINSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868

DISEASES OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS. By THOMAS G. MORTON, M.D., and HENRY M. WETHERILL, JR., M.D., PH.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877

INTESTINAL WORMS. By JOSEPH LEIDY, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . 930

DISEASES OF THE LIVER. By ROBERTS BARTHOLOW, A.M., M.D., LL.D. . 965

DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS. By LOUIS STARR, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 1112

PERITONITIS. By ALONZO CLARK, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 1132

DISEASES OF THE ABDOMINAL GLANDS (TABES MESENTERICA). By SAMUEL C. BUSEY, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME II.

ARMOR, SAMUEL G., M.D., LL.D., Brooklyn.

ATKINSON, I. EDMONDSON, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine and Clinical Professor of Dermatology in the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

BARTHOLOW, ROBERTS, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Materia Medica, General Therapeutics, and Hygiene in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

Part 3

BUSEY, SAMUEL C., M.D., An Attending Physician and Chairman of the Board of Hospital Administration of the Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

CLARK, ALONZO, M.D., LL.D., Late Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

COHEN, J. SOLIS, M.D., Professor in Diseases of the Throat and Chest in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Physician to the German Hospital, Philadelphia.

DRAPER, W. H., M.D., Attending Physician to the New York and Roosevelt Hospitals, New York.

HOWARD, R. PALMER, M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in McGill University, Montreal; Consulting Physician to Montreal General Hospital, Canada.

JACOBI, ABRAHAM, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc.

JOHNSTON, W. W., M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Columbian University, Washington.

LEIDY, JOSEPH, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

LYNCH, JOHN S., M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.

MORTON, THOMAS G., M.D., Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

MCGUIRE, HUNTER, M.D., Richmond, Va.

SMITH, J. LEWIS, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.

STARR, LOUIS, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

TYSON, JAMES, A.M., M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

WALES, PHILIP S., M.D., Washington.

WELCH, WILLIAM H., M.D., Professor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

WETHERILL, HENRY M., JR., M.D., Assistant Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia.

WHITE, J. WILLIAM, M.D., Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital; Assistant Surgeon to the University Hospital; Demonstrator of Surgery and Lecturer on Venereal Diseases and Operative Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

WHITTAKER, JAMES T., M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME II.

FIGURE PAGE 1. POSITION OF PUNCTURES IN DIABETIC AREA OF MEDULLA OBLONGATA NECESSARY TO PRODUCE GLYCOSURIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

2. THE LAST CERVICAL AND FIRST THORACIC GANGLIA, WITH CIRCLE OF VIEUSSENS, IN THE RABBIT, LEFT SIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

3. DIAGRAM SHOWING COURSE OF THE VASO-MOTOR NERVES OF THE LIVER, ACCORDING TO CYON AND ALADOFF . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

4. DIAGRAM SHOWING ANOTHER COURSE WHICH THE VASO-MOTOR NERVES OF THE LIVER MAY TAKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

5. JOHNSON'S PICRO-SACCHARIMETER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

6. PEMPHIGUS BULLA FROM A NEW-BORN SYPHILITIC CHILD . . . . . . 276

7. SECTION OF RETE MUCOSUM AND PAPILLÆ FROM SAME CASE OF PEMPHIGUS AS FIG. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

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