Spinal Irritation: (posterior Spinal Anæmia)

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George S. Davis, 1886 - Broj stranica: 80
 

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Stranica 11 - ... liver, from mental emotions, from the poison of typhus, from marsh miasmata, from erysipelatous, rheumatic, and eruptive fevers, and from the irritation arising from local injury.
Stranica 11 - That affections are occasionally met with presenting all the marks of the hysteric character, and perfectly resembling cases described as those of spinal irritation, but unattended by spinal tenderness or any other direct indication of a morbid state of the cord.
Stranica 4 - ... the fact that eccentric derangement of function may be the result of irritation of the spinal cord. Thus he says : " Most medical practitioners who have attended to the subject of spinal disease must have observed that its symptoms frequently resemble various and dissimilar maladies, and that commonly the function of every organ is impaired whose nerves originate near the seat of disorder. The occurrence of pain in distant parts forcibly attracted my attention, and induced frequent examination...
Stranica 67 - 1. To remove the cause; 2. To improve the general tone of the system; 3. To increase the amount of blood in the spinal cord, and improve the nutrition of this organ ; 4. To set up a counter-irritant action in the vicinity of the disordered region of the cord.
Stranica 78 - ... for the ice-cold fluids that had been ingested only to be promptly vomited. Among medical means, I have never used anything comparable to the valerianate of caffeine, which may be given in doses of from three to five grains as often as it appears to be required. Its only objection is its great cost. In a very obstinate case which I saw recently in consultation with Dr. Whybrew, every noted medicine had been tried without effect, when a couple of doses of the valerianate of caffeine at once arrested...
Stranica 10 - That where several points, or a great extent of the spinal column, is painful and tender on pressure, local remedies are generally less effectual, and there is a strong disposition to transference of the disordered action from one organ to another ; the pain or tenderness, in all such cases of transference, shifting its place to a corresponding part of the spinal column, leaving the original point free, or with a very diminished degree of tenderness. 7th. That spinal tenderness is seldom or never...
Stranica 9 - That in all the cases of tenderness of the cervical and upper dorsal spine, there was nausea, or vomiting, or pain of stomach, or affections of the upper extremities ; but no pain of the abdomen, dysury, ischury, hysteralgia, or affections of the lower extremities.
Stranica 10 - ... in disturbed states of the cord; and hence that this disturbed state is one vast source of those Complaints called hysterical or nervous. "9th. That those functional disorders connected with spinal tenderness are very often attended by some disturbance of the functions of the uterus, but that they are by no means always so, since they occur in those who are regular in this respect ; in girls long before the menstrual period of life, in women after it has passed, and, lastly, in men of nervous...

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