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

144
CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL
eleven of some spinal trouble. The parents and shivered as she expressed it. An exu-
were healthful.
dation appeared on left leg about six months
Patient is a native of Hominy, in Bun- after the ankle popped and on the right leg
combe county, is now forty-five, and may about six months after the thigh shivered.
weigh 100 pounds. Her normal weight Both legs are now covered with great fishy
was^lOT. The first point of special interest scales.
in her personal history is that normal men- Some five years ago the left arm broke or
struation was established at fourteen and bursted above the elbow. Much pain is
continued without noticeable irregularity now felt in the right shoulder.
till forty- four. Patient married before she Her pelvis is flat. She has no bedsores.
reached fifteen, and is still living with the The bowels move regularly. She craves
husband. Contrary to classical history she
never miscarried, and never even became
pregnant. At twenty-four a case of socalled
erysipelas developed in her right leg
and continued for six months, leaving an
ulcer which remained for some months
longer. A few years later she often suffered
from supposed rheumatic pains in her hips.
When about thirty-three she endured what
she called "deep boring pains" in the marrow
of the bone of the left leg. After suffering
this torture some six months, she
says she felt "her ankle pop as she was walking
across the room. She was unable to
use this limb for IS months. Then for a
year and a half she managed to hobble
around. About this time her fingers and
toes began to be emaciated and drawn and
her right thigh began to ache and throb.
Two or three years later the thigh bursted
much fruit. Her teeth are bad. ,
The cause of this serious disturbance in i
metabolism is usually referred to child- r
bearing. It might better be referred to some .J
dyscrasia of the sexual organs independent^
of child-bearing. The disease occurs far...
more frequently in prolific mothers, but {
may occur in sterile women and even in «
men. The remedy par excellence in theJ
early stages is castration.
Amoebic Dysentery wllh Abscess ol
Liver Conlirmed at Autopsy.
By Win. Allan, M. D., Professor of Parasitology|
North Carolina Medical College, Charlotte, N. C. J
During eighteen months residence in^^
Charlotte, I have neither seen nor heard; i
anything of tropical abscess of the liver.: f
Inasmuch as our dysentery death rate
equals our typhoid death rate, liver abscess