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The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (v. 36)
The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner - v. 36 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Gout, hereditary in the family, appeared in M. X in 1871, and second time last spring, with medium intensity and without extending beyond the articulations of... more » the foot. It is nearly two years since treatment, and the benefit remains, although M. X has had an excess of business, and moral emotions have not been spared hioi. The cure of the double affection may then be credited to the use of static electricity, of which Dr. Arthuis has already made so many happy applications to therapeutics. L. w. c. Early Signs Of Phthisis.—Dr. Haenisch (Deutsch Arch, f. Klin. Med. and Annales de la Soc. de Med. de Ganel) has studied the movements of expansion of the chest in consumptives, by means of the stethograph, and concludes from his researches that in the normal state the expansion of the chest is equal for both sides. If both apices are diseased (catarrh of the small bronchial tubes, induration, cavities), the expansion is less. It is less on the diseased side than on the sound side; which fact may serve for diagnosis. At the same time, according to him, there should be mentioned an important characteristic for the diagnosis of commencing tuberculosis drawn from the position of the clavicles; this has been shown by Aufrecht. In the normal state the acromial extremity of the clavicles is more elevated than the sternal end. If the acromial end is depressed, it signifies that the respiratory field on this side is narrowed. If the acromial end is found on the same plane as the sternal end, if, moreover, there exist certain other suspicious symptoms such as anajmia, pains in the different portions of the chest, etc., an affection of the corresponding apex should be thought of. As a general rule the acromial end of the clavicle is lower on the diseased side than on the so...« less