Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

XLVIII
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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
d.aiiied they rapidly occur. They are lined four weeks more to my indisposition, my
with pavement epithelium. The contents liver and kidneys got into a very bad conconsist
of a fluid that is serous, mixed with dition.
blood, sero-mucous, or oleagenous. The I commenced the use of the Cystogen
I)athogenesis is uncertain. Most authors Lithia with some doubt as to its efficiency,
refer them to an obliteration of the milk but the results have been most satisfactory,
ducts, at their excretorv extremity. The Instead of being awakened every hour of
l)lood contained seems to be the result of the night by an accumulation of irritating
injury to the mammary gland. Or it may urine, I seldom awake for the entire night,
be extravasated as a result of the congestive and never more than once. I find my liver
condition that arises in the breasts at men- and kidneys working jierfectly, which is
struation. Another more modern theory remarkable for an old chap of 72, since the
refers them to an inflammatory lesion of the greatest nuisance that a man meets with
gland. The wall of the cyst removed by after his three-score years and ten is an illthe
author consisted of layers of fibrous behaved bladder.
tissue, the cavitv being lined with cubical I am more than satisfied with the action
and plorostratified epithelium. The surface of the Cystogen Lithia tablets, and they
of the cystic membrane was covered with dissolve perfectly, leaving actually no sedivillosites,
each one containing a dilated ment.
vessel. These vessels freeiuently had under- You are at liberty to use this endorsegone
extravasation of blood into the villo- ment in any form or manner you please,
sities. The structure resembled a fibroade- Sincerely yours,
nomatous tumor. This would show that
extirpation was necessary on account of
(Signed)
May S, 1909.
Dr. Jas. R. Phelps,
Dorchester, Mass.
the danger of cancerous
Ciazette de Gynecologic.
degeneration.
The Therapeutic Action of Prunoids.
• Prunoids produce their excellent thera-
Histology and Pathogenesis ol Condy- peutic results by stimulating secretions, inloma
Acuminate. creasing the fluid content of the feces and
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1 only gently increasing peristalsis. They
Pietro Stancanelli has examnied many \ i i ^ i i -i ^ i \
.r 1 , . 1 1 ., . are extremelv palatable, easily taken by
specific condyloma a and compared their
^^^^^ children, and when brought in
histology with that of condyloma acumi-
^^^^^>^^ ^^^^^ the secretions rapidly dlintenata,
and as a resu t gives us the following » , , ^, . •
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'^ grate and produce their specific medicinal
conclusions; This growth is a product of a . -n i •
ui c .-t ^ .-c
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, I ,, effect. Probably one of the most gratifving
chronic proliferation which begins *^
m the r, .„ -j- u ^ c fi'c
, r,ti.i. 1. features or Prunoids is what tor lack or a
mucous coriniscles of Malpighi, resulting u ... ^ u n i ^u
. £,. ^.' , i.r ? r .. better term may be called their remote
in inn tration and proliferation or the pa- a- ^ ,,n •, ^ i j -j j ^i
.,, , \\. r effect. While prompt and decided catharsis
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pillae; a new tormed tissue of embrvonal r ,, ..\ j .. .. .
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. 1.1^1, ~_. . follows their administration in six or eight
type arises, which tends to organization , -u j i ^ ^ ^- a
T -L- ^ 1 1 j-«- .• *• ?> .1 . hours, a mild and Salutarv laxative mfluand
histological differentiation. From their . , j c '^ a c» ^u
jr.. . • J 1 1 ^ ence is observed tor several davs alter ,
the
mode ot origin and tendency '
to necrobiosis £ i i r r> -a /~>,i ^u .
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1 J. T^i final dosa of Prunoids. Other cathartic
the beginning is in the mucous bodies. The .^ . ^ .^t j r^
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,. . .^a ^ , , / ^ measures act just the reverse, and after
tissue IS an miiammatory-hvperplastic type ., . ^i i i .111
\^^'' ""'^ the bowels invariably show greater
which tends to organiza ion. It is furnihed
^^'^^'^^ ^"'^ sluggishness.
with a peripheral nervous reticulum
fibrillar and ganglionic. Bacteriological Nervous Excitement.
and bacterioscopic researches indicate that t ^.t ^ .-• 1 ^1
. • . A ^ ^ . • 'iM. In these strenuous times, when the menit
IS not caused bv bacteria. The cause is