Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications: With Special Reference to Diagnosis and Treatment for General Practitioners and Students

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Saunders, 1910 - Tuberculosis - 955 pages
 

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Page 279 - Slight or no constitutional symptoms (particularly including gastric or intestinal disturbance or rapid loss of weight). Slight or no elevation of temperature or acceleration of pulse at any time during the twenty-four hours, especially after rest. Expectoration usually small in amount, or absent. Tubercle bacilli may be present or absent.
Page 587 - Annual Report of the Henry Phipps Institute. For the Study, Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Page 279 - Slight initial lesion in the form of infiltration limited to the apex or a small part of one lobe. " No tuberculous complications. Slight or no constitutional symptoms (particularly including gastric or intestinal disturbances or rapid loss of weight). " Slight or no elevation of temperature or acceleration of pulse at any time during the twenty-four hours, especially after rest. " Expectoration usually small in amount or absent. " Tubercle bacilli may be present or absent.
Page 722 - College ; Member of the Council of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculosis; Hon.
Page 53 - There is far less difficulty in recognising clinically that a cow is distinctly suffering from tuberculosis, in which case she may be yielding tuberculous milk. The milk coming from such a cow ought not to form part of human food, and indeed ought not to be used as food at all. "Our results clearly point to the necessity of measures more stringent than those at present enforced being taken to prevent the sale or the consumption of such milk.
Page 280 - Absence of all constitutional symptoms ; expectoration and bacilli may or may not be present ; physical signs stationary or retrogressive ; the foregoing conditions to have existed for at least two months.
Page 761 - It is desirable, in the majority of instances, to transmit to the patient and family some intelligent idea as to the nature of the disease and the manner in which it is hoped to secure arrest.
Page 677 - ... somewhat elevated. 8. I have not been in favor of its continued subcutaneous employment, and have given, as a rule, not over four or five doses at intervals of one or two days and awaited results.
Page 100 - Of this disease of the consumption sundry of those Indian youths died, that were bred up to school among the English. The truth is, this disease is frequent among the Indians; and sundry die "of it, that live not with the English. A hectick fever, issuing in a consumption, is a common and mortal disease among them.
Page 677 - ... reaction, which is independent of the specific nature of the remedy, but common to all other serum preparations, bears no relation to the ultimate results obtained. 4. Some cases show marked improvement in spite of temporary discomfort in the way of chills, fever, urticaria, and painful swelling, with stiffness of the joints, while others exhibit no improvement, although there is entire absence of constitutional disturbance. 5. Reaction may take place within twelve hours after the use of the...

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