A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 5

About this eBook

Editor

Starr, Louis, 1849-1925

Title

A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 5 : Diseases of the nervous system

Original Publication

Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1886.

Credits

Ron Swanson

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Medicine -- Practice

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71892

Release Date

October 16, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A — SYSTEM — OF — PRACTICAL MEDICINE. — BY — AMERICAN AUTHORS. — EDITED BY — WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D., — ASSISTED BY — LOUIS STARR, M.D., — VOLUME V.
2. 2.DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — PHILADELPHIA: LEA BROTHERS & CO. 1886.
3. 3.VALEDICTORY.
4. 4.CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. — DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
5. 5.CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME V.
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS.
7. 7.DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — GENERAL SEMEIOLOGY OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA OF DIAGNOSIS. — THE PRINCIPLES OF DIAGNOSIS. — THE LOCALIZATION OF LESIONS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — MENTAL DISEASES. — States of Mental Defect and Degeneration. 12 — Psychoneuroses. — Complicating Insanities. — Insanity from Specific Poisons. — Organic Mental Diseases. — HYSTERIA. — HYSTERO-EPILEPSY. — CATALEPSY. — Hypnotic Catalepsy. — Unilateral Catalepsy. — Catalepsy and Cataleptoid Phenomena among the Insane. — ECSTASY. — Trance, Lethargy, and Morbid Somnolence. — Stigmatization. — Autographic Women. — Fasting Saints and Fasting Girls. — NEURASTHENIA. — SLEEP, AND ITS DISORDERS. — Dreams. — Night-Terrors. — Somnambulism. — Artificial Somnambulism, or Hypnotism. — INSOMNIA. — Lithæmic Insomnia. — Febrile Insomnia. — Insomnia from Exhaustion. — Insomnia from Active Cerebral Congestion. — Coma. — Sleeping Dropsy (Maladie du Sommeil). — Lethargy. — Apparent Death. — Lucid Lethargy. — ACUTE AFFECTIONS PRODUCED BY EXPOSURE TO HEAT. — Heat-Exhaustion. — Thermic Fever. — HEADACHE. — Migraine. — VERTIGO. — TREMOR. — PARALYSIS AGITANS. — CHOREA. — ATHETOSIS. — LOCAL CONVULSIVE DISORDERS. — Thomsen's Disease. — Painless Facial Spasm. — Torticollis. — Eclampsia. — EPILEPSY. — THE NEURAL DISORDERS OF WRITERS AND ARTISANS. — TETANUS. — Puerperal Tetanus. — Tetanus Neonatorum. — DISORDERS OF SPEECH. — Development of Speech. — Disorders of Speech. — ALCOHOLISM. — THE PATHOLOGICAL ACTION OF ALCOHOL. — I. Acute Alcoholism. — II. Chronic Alcoholism. — III. Hereditary Alcoholism. — IV. Dipsomania. — THE OPIUM HABIT AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS. — Opium and Morphine. — Chloral Hydrate. — Paraldehyde. — Cannabis Indica, Ether, Chloroform, and Cocaine. — Treatment. — CHRONIC LEAD-POISONING. — PROGRESSIVE UNILATERAL FACIAL ATROPHY. — DISEASES OF THE MEMBRANES OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. — Inflammation of the Dura Mater of the Brain. — Congestion of the Dura Mater. — Inflammation of the External Surface of the Dura. — Internal Pachymeningitis. — Hæmatoma of the Dura Mater. — Cerebral Meningeal Hemorrhage. — Congestion of the Cerebral Pia Mater. — Inflammation of the Cerebral Pia Mater. — Chronic Cerebral Meningitis. — TUBERCULAR MENINGITIS. — Tubercular Meningitis in the Adult. — CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALUS. — CONGESTION, INFLAMMATION, AND HEMORRHAGE OF THE MEMBRANES OF THE SPINAL CORD. — Congestion of the Spinal Membranes. — Acute Inflammation of the Spinal Dura Mater. — Chronic Spinal Pachymeningitis. — Acute Spinal Meningitis. — Chronic Spinal Meningitis. — Spinal Meningeal Hemorrhage. — SPINA BIFIDA. — ANÆMIA AND HYPERÆMIA OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. — Cerebral Hyperæmia. — Cerebral Anæmia. — Inflammation of the Brain. — Abscess of the Brain. — Spinal Hyperæmia. — Spinal Anæmia. — Embolism, Thrombosis, Hemorrhage, and Abscess of the Spinal Cord. — Simple Acute Myelitis. — THE CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY AND DEGENERATIVE AFFECTIONS OF THE SPINAL CORD. — Tabes Dorsalis. — Spastic Spinal Paralysis. — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. — The Combined Forms of Sclerosis. — The Family Form of Tabes Dorsalis. — Disseminated Sclerosis. — Diffuse Sclerosis. — The Secondary Scleroses. — The Treatment of Spinal Sclerosis. — CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. — Concussion of the Brain. — Concussion of the Spine. — INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE AND OCCLUSION OF THE CEREBRAL VESSELS, APOPLEXY, SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN, CEREBRAL PARALYSIS. — Capillary Embolism. — Thrombosis of the Cerebral Veins and Sinuses. — Softening of the Brain — Atheroma of the Cerebral Arteries — ATROPHY AND HYPERTROPHY OF THE BRAIN. — ATROPHY OF THE BRAIN. — 1. Atrophy of the Brain during Childhood. — 2. Atrophy of the Fully-developed Brain. — HYPERTROPHY OF THE BRAIN. — SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS OF THE NERVE-CENTRES. — Introduction. — Gummatous Brain Syphilis. — Syphilitic Disease of the Brain-Cortex. — Spinal Syphilis. — TUMORS OF THE BRAIN AND ITS ENVELOPES. — TUMORS OF THE SPINAL CORD AND ITS ENVELOPES. — INFANTILE SPINAL PARALYSIS. — DISEASE OF ONE LATERAL HALF OF THE SPINAL CORD. — PROGRESSIVE LABIO-GLOSSO-LARYNGEAL PARALYSIS. — DISEASES OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVES. — Injuries of the Peripheral Nerves. — INFLAMMATION OF NERVES. — Neuritis. — Multiple Neuritis, Multiple Degenerative Neuritis, Polyneuritis. — Anæsthesia of Peripheral Origin. — Peripheral Paralysis of the Facial Nerve (Bell's Paralysis). — Neuromata. — NEURALGIA. — Superficial Neuralgia. — Neuralgia of the Viscera. — Migraine, or Sick Headache. — Special Forms of Neuralgia. 35 — Neuralgias of the Fifth Nerve. — VASO-MOTOR AND TROPHIC NEUROSES. — Vaso-motor Neuroses. — Symmetrical Gangrene. — Diseases of the Cervical Sympathetic. — Trophic Neuroses. — INDEX TO VOLUME V. — GENERAL INDEX. — END OF VOLUME V.

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