Author : Thomas Dent Mütter
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230142166
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...It is highly important, in forming our diagnosis, to distinguish the true cause, as the treatment chiefly turns upon this point. The permanent defects, resulting from this condition of the muscles, most frequently met with, are certain kinds of stammer, twitching of the muscles of the face, scrivener's spasm, rigid atrophy and paralysis. I. STAMMERING. Definition. Varieties.--1. Functional. 2. Organic. Causes of functional.--Sometimes inappreciable; spasm of muscles, bad habit from imitation. Causes of organic.--The tongue may be too large, too long, tied, or badly shaped. The fauces and roof of the mouth may also, when deformed, occasion a stammer. Diagnosis. Prognosis, Treatment.--Various methods have been introduced, but of course the character of the cause will modify the treatment. There are four plans chiefly in vogue: --1. Vocal gymnastics. 2. Speaking with some hard substance between the teeth. 3. Acupuncture. 4. An operation. History of these operations. Different modes of operating described. Appreciation of these operations. II. TWITCHING OF THE MUSCLES OP THE PACE. Varieties. Causes. Diagnosis. Prognosis. Treatment. III. Definition. Causes. Symptoms. Diagnosis. Prognosis. Treatment. X. ENTOZOOA. The muscles frequently become the habitations of parasitic animals, and especially of the Cysticercus cellulosa, and the Trichina spiralis, first described, I believe, by Mr. Owen, of London, XI. MALIGNANT DISEASES. The muscles, like all the other tissues, are liable to be attacked by the various affections to which the term malignant has been assigned. VH. DISEASES OF THE ARTERIES. I. WOUNDS. Varieties.--Penetrating, non-penetrating, punctured, incised, contused, lacerated, &c. Symptoms.--Depend on the nature of the wound, and the...