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Canadian Practitioner Volume 23 by Books Group

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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 298 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231540800
Download Link: Canadian Practitioner Volume 23
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...in fact, ever since Wagner pointed out that all such lesions might be referred to the developments of a specific neoplasm. Perhaps Wagner went too far, for there are generalized fibroid conditions, which, as I shall have to point out in connection with the liver, are not directly due to the development of circumscribed neoplasms; but it must be acknowledged that neoplasms or infective granulomata are to be recognized in each stage and form of the disease. Nevertheless, the idea of the sharp demarcation of the different forms and stages of the disease seems to be as firmly planted today as it was prior to 1864, and the admirable protest of Nevins Hyde1 and the writings of others do not seem as yet to have influenced the profession in general. At the outset, I must point out that it is not even necessary to have any recognizable first stage or cutaneous chancre. We know well that in every case of infection the infectious agent must make an entry from without into the tissues, and in a great number of cases we can discover the point or points of entry, and at such point or points we find evidences of primary local infection, whether on the skin or mucous membranes, and thin local infection is strictly comparable with the cutaneous syphilitic chancre. But we also come across cases in which there is a complete lack of evidence of such superficial primary infection; we may find, for instance, the cervical or mesenteric lymph glands affected with tuberculosis without a sign of tuberculosis of the pharynx or tonsils or intestinal mucosa, cases which usually, though mistakenly, are spoken of as "cryptogenetic.' What occurs in other diseases must at times occur in syphilis, and in going over my post-mortem records, in which to each case I have subjoined a record...

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