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A
SYSTEM
OF
PRACTICAL MEDICINE
COMPRISED IN
A SERIES OF ORIGINAL DISSERTATIONS.
ARRANGED AND EDITED BY
ALEXANDER TWEEDIE, M.D. F.R.S.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL AND TO THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, ETC.
VOL. V.
LONDON:
WHITTAKER AND CO, AVE-MARIA LANE.
MDCCCXL.
CONTENTS
THE FIFTH VOLUME.
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HEMORRHAGE.
GENERAL DOCTRINES.
(Dr. George Burrows.)
Definition. Preliminary Observations.- Spontaneous Hæmorrhages. Different Tissues
from which these occur - Mode of Escape of the Blood - by Rupture of Vessels, and by Ex-
halation. Arguments in support of the Doctrine of Hæmorrhage by Exhalation.— Sponta-
neous Hæmorrhage, a Symptom of constitutional Disturbance, or of local Disease. -Active
and passive Hæmorrhages. Symptomatic and Sympathetic. . - Diagnosis of spontaneous Ha-
morrhages. Characters of the Blood effused.- Observations on constitutional Hæmorrhages.
States of the Constitution favourable to them. Their Periodicity. - Vicarious Hæmor-
rhages.- Symptoms attending active Hæmorrhages. - Passive Hæmorrhages. - Explanation
of the Cause of the Extravasation of the Blood in active and passive Hæmorrhages. Effects
of Hæmorrhage, local and general. Treatment of constitutional Hæmorrhages of periodical
vicarious active - - passive. Observations on symptomatic and sympathetic Hæmor-
rhages. Hæmorrhages considered with refererence to their seat into the Substance of
Organs-cutaneous from serous Membranes - from mucous Membranes Page 1
HEMORRHAGE FROM THE NOSE,
OR EPISTAXIS.
Symptomatic of constitutional and local Disease. - Active. - Passive. - Vicarious. - Treat-
ment
HÆMORRHAGE FROM THE LUNGS,
OR HEMOPTYSIS.
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Definition. - General description. -Sources from which the Blood may issue. - Pulmonary
lesions induced by Hæmoptysis. Pulmonary Apoplexy. Causes of Hæmoptysis - Active
constitutional Hæmoptysis—its Symptoms and Treatment. Passive constitutional Hæmo-
ptysis and its Treatment.-Vicarious Hæmoptysis and its Treatment. - Hæmoptysis induced
by pulmonary Diseases, Symptoms and Treatment - by Cardiac Diseases, Symptoms and
Treatment.- Hæmoptysis resulting from obstruction in the Abdominal Circulation
HÆMORRHAGE FROM THE STOMACH,
OR HEMATEMESIS.
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Etymology. - Symptoms. - Diagnosis. - Prognosis. - Duration. - Influence of Age and sex.
- Quantity of Blood effused. - Its physical Characters. - Condition of the Stomach in Ha-
matemesis. - Causes. - Active constitutional Hematemesis. - Symptoms and Treatment.
Passive Hæmatemesis and its Treatment. - Vicarious Hæmatemesis and its Treatment.
Hæmatemesis induced by organic Lesions of the Stomach-of other Organs.
HEMORRHAGE FROM THE INTESTINES. (Dr. George Burrows.)
Symptoms and source of the Hæmorrhage. - Characters of the effused Blood.-Prognosis.
Causes. Constitutional Disturbance and structural Lesions. Intestinal Hæmorrhage may
be active, passive or vicarious. - Symptoms and Treatment of these Forms. - May originate
in connection with organic Lesions, viz. Inflammation of the intestinal mucous Membrane.—
Ulceration. Carcinoma. - Diseased Liver and Spleen. - Symptoms and Treatment of these
Forms.
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