Researches and observations on the causes of Scrofulous Diseases ... Translated from the French, with an introduction, and an essay on the treatment of the principal varieties of Scrofula, by W. H. Ranking1844 |
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الصفحة 252 - The MODUS OPERANDI of the oil may be said to consist in stimulating the lymphatic glands and vessels, and by these means increasing the activity of the capillary system. By its action on the former the process of assimilation is facilitated, and the appetite increased. The quality of the blood is thus improved, and so, lastly, the different organs and structures of the body become better nourished, and receive more turgor vitalis.
الصفحة 236 - ... be better contrived to effect that purpose. The prevailing system of female education is indeed fraught with most pernicious consequences : — at a period of life when the development of the physical constitution demands the most judicious management, young girls are sent to schools...
الصفحة 237 - While school-boys have the advantage of a play-ground, or enjoy their recreation at pleasure in the open fields, the unfortunate inmates of a female boarding-school are only permitted to walk along the footpaths in pairs in stiff and monotonous formality, resembling, as Beddoes justly remarks, a funeral procession, and wanting nothing to funereal melancholy but sables and the hearse. The consequence is, that the muscles of the upper extremities and those which are chiefly concerned in the support...
الصفحة 237 - ... in a cold room, till the whole frame, and more especially the lower extremities, become chilled ; the brief relaxation during the short space...
الصفحة 237 - ... consequently more liable to congestion, and the diseases which are its consequences. While the natural form of the body is thus destroyed, the derangement of the general health is manifested by the paleness of the countenance, the dry and coarse appearance of the skin, costive bowels, and cold extremities. In short, all the requisites for the production of struma may be found in a large proportion of female boarding-schools, where the system we have described is pursued.
الصفحة 266 - ... the disease has lasted for some time, many months or even a year and more, making little progress, and often remaining stationary, one of the prominences begins to increase so as to be observed externally, and to feel painful and tender ; the skin over it becomes adherent, changes to a livid hue, ulcerates and bursts, giving vent to a soft caseous matter mixed with pus. This is followed by the formation of a fistulous sinus, which discharges a scanty thin serous pus, mixed with particles of tubular...
الصفحة 237 - We lately visited, in a large town, a boarding-school containing forty girls ; and we learnt, on close and accurate inquiry, that there was not one of the girls who had been at the school two years (and the majority had been as long,) that was not more or less crooked!
الصفحة 237 - ... the amount of mental improvement, or rather the variety of accomplishments with which they can be stored. At an early hour in the morning, the pupil is set down to...
الصفحة 178 - ... is such that they rarely survive the ordeal of the exanthemata, and if they do not succumb to these maladies they perish by some tuberculous affection. These beings are deteriorating from the healthy standard in consequence of town life. My views fall in very much with those expressed by Lugol : " Scrofula shows itself in the children in the third generation of those whose ancestors entered Paris full of health and vigor, and from the third generation the malady rages even to the utter extinction...
الصفحة 266 - These sinuses sometimes communicate, and they may continue open and discharging for a great length of time. After the deposit has all come away, if the original disease be arrested, and no more tubercular matter formed, reparative changes sometimes take place; the discharge ceases; the...