Lectures to practitioners. On the diseases classified by the Registrar-General as tabes mesenterica / by W.T. Gairdner. On the pathology of phthisis pulmonalis / by Joseph Coats.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Lectures to practitioners. On the diseases classified by the Registrar-General as tabes mesenterica / by W.T. Gairdner. On the pathology of phthisis pulmonalis / by Joseph Coats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. ON THE DISEASES CLASSIFIED BY THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL AS TABES MESENTERICA. By Dr. W. T. GAIRDNER. LECTURE I. HISTORICAL. PAGES The idea, or principle, invoiced in the name tabes meseiiterica; origin of the name ; historical references and personal observa- tions contrasted; Carreau, as a popular and medical designation of the disease, . . . . . . . . . 1 — 23 LECTURE II. NOSOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL. The nosology of M. Guersent involves a logical fallacy; analysis of the clinical ideas involved in Carreau. The pathological bias. Row it has come about that the conventional representa- tions of the prognosis are much too generally unfavourable, 24 — 40 LECTURE III. DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS. Carreau and Chronic Peritonitis; association of the latter with. Tubercle by Louis, a/nd unduly grave prognosis accordingly, 41 — 50