Cancer: Its Classification and RemediesS.W. Butler, 1871 - 190 páginas |
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Página 185 - I visited Mrs. Matthews at South Bend, and was indeed astonished at the rapid change which had taken place. The tumor had become soft, the color natural, the secondary glandular deposits had all disappeared. The improved complexion, muscular firmness and elasticity of spirits all pointed to an early and complete recovery. " Mrs. Handy, residing on M street, in this city, was the next subject of experiment with the cundurango.
Página 75 - The colour of the solution is yellow, with a pale tinge of green : its taste is slightly styptic. It cannot be properly conjoined with tincture of opium, or with sulphate, muriate, or acetate of morphia ; for all these produce immediate and copious precipitates in it.
Página 56 - ... identical in their structure are tubercles with products of inflammation on the one hand and certain tumours on the other. Hence, from the merest hypertrophy up to the most aberrant form of tumour, disease is nothing more than an unusual activity or perversion of the very changes which are ceaselessly going on in the nutrition of the body, and which constitute what we understand by the life of the individual. Perhaps nowhere is the birth of tubercle better studied than in the pia mater of a person...
Página 185 - ... raised edges, hard and scarlet-colored, bleeding profusely at the slightest touch, emitting an odor of the most sickening and disagreeable kind, discharging a brownish, cancerous, limpid fluid ; the countenance bloated, tallowy-looking, with a bluish pallor of the whole face ; the lips turned blue at the least exertion, so that I have been very much alarmed, fearing a rapid crisis and dissolution ; at the same time the tumor itself enlarged with fearful rapidity, so much so that I could notice...
Página 184 - Bliss placed her on the decoction of cundurango, and had the gratification of observing an early and decided change for the better, in both the local and general conditions. One of its almost immediate effects was the relief of pain, and a free diaphoresis, characterized by an odor distinctly observable of the infusion itself.
Página 18 - ... a bluish hue. There is no thickening, or other alteration of structure in any part of the vagina, at its conjunction with which the cervix uteri moves freely; nor is there any consolidation of the uterus with the neighboring contents of the pelvis; in fact, the morbid organic change appears to be, at first, entirely confined to the os uteri and lower portion of the cervix. This stage of the affection is, in many instances, very slow, lasting sometimes, for years, before the second and hopeless...
Página 56 - ... mater of a person who has died of acute tubercular meningitis. A piece of this membrane, spread out and examined under a moderately high power of the microscope, is found to be the seat of an extraordinary cellular increase. The cells and nuclei which mark this increase or proliferation are seen part scattered profusely and at random through the membrane, giving it the well-known milky appearance that it offers to the naked eye, part clustered into little whitish or grayish knots or particles...
Página 41 - On what this difference in the formative power of the exudation depends, we are ignorant, but every kind of reasoning must lead us to the conclusion, that these different changes and effects depend, not upon the vascular system, which is the mere apparatus for the production of exudation ; not upon the nervous system, which conducts impressions to...