Volume 1

The Internal secretions and the principles of medicine / by Charles E. de M. Sajous.

  • Sajous, Charles E. de M. (Charles Eucharist de Medicis), 1852-1929.
Date:
1903-1907
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    either through inherited or acquired insufficiency, is unahle to adequately maintain general nutrition. It is not in the lungs, therefore, that the primary endogenous cause of the disease must be sought, but in the adrenal system. Nor is it even in Symptoms that follow : (1) removal of both adrenals in mammals; (2) haem- orrhage Into both adre- nals ; (3) sudden ces- sation of adrenal functions as a result of organic disease. Cardinal symptoms of Asiatic Cholera. Cardinal symptoms of chol- era infantum, cholera nostras; tartar emetic and arsenic acute poi- soning ; poisoning due to ingestion of certain toxic foods : meat, milk, fish, and mushrooms (phal- line) especially. 1. Great weakness, with gradual loss of imiscular power. 1. Marked muscular weakness. 1. Rapid loss of strength. 2. Violent abdominal pain. 2. Violent griping pain. 2. Abdominal discom- fort and pain. 3. Great reduction of vascular pressure; pulse small and weak. 3. Pulse rapid and weak ; sometimes in- termittent. 3. Pulse rapid, weak, and intermittent. 4. Temperature subnor- mal just before death especially. 4. Temperature in mouth and on surface very low, but 104° F. in rectum. 4. Temperature subnor- mal, but rectal tem- perature 103° to 105° F. 6. Eespiration frequent and difficult; dysp- noea ; sometimes cy- anosis. 5. Eespiration frequent and difficult, and cy- anosis. 5 Rapid ; labored; Cheyne-Stokes type sometimes. 6. XJrine scanty. 6. Urine scanty ; some- times suppressed. 6. Urine scanty; some- times complete anu- ria. 7. Abundant liquid stools. 7. Rice-water; serous stools. 7. At first bile-stained stools, and then noth- ing but serum. 8. Death ; coma ; con- vulsions. 8. Coma ; convulsions. 8. Coma ; convulsions. 9. Proves fatal in from 20 minutes to 3 days. 9. Proves fatal in from 2 to 3 days. 9 Proves fatal in from a few hours to 4 days. the lungs that we must seek the explanation of the lesions in them, for the element of specificity of the bacillus of tubercu- losis does not, as is well known, include limitations to any particular organ.