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

212 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL. f
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chest ; assist the inflamed membranes to return to their nor- •
mal condition and to resist future attack—and do all this
without upsetting digestion. .^
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affected. There is hypertension and then produced by the same cells which formed
hypotension of the portal circulation, and it.—Archivio per le Science Mediche.
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relaxation of the suspensory ligaments of
liver and spleen. All sorts of symptoms Landry's Paralysis. J
are presented in gastric dyspepsia of mala- c. H. Cattle recently reported a case of |
rial origin. In the beginning there is ex- Landry's paralysis. The patient was a col- J
citation of sensibility of the stomach, of lierv banksman, aged twenty-three, and had J
secretion, and of motility. Later succeeds taken alcohol to excess, as well as sat in
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a period of depression, with dimunition of ^,et clothes a week previous to the onset of
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secretion. Later succeeds a period of de- the disease. This began with muscular J
pression, with diminution of secretion. In pains, then he turned cold, sick, and dizzy, J
most cases there is more or less pronounced ^^d complained of numbness at the tips of
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anemia. Treatment should include the use "
the fingers of both hands. The arms were
of quinine and hydrotherapeutic measures next affected, and after them the legs and
—Rivue de Me Jecine. trunk. Then the eyelids and mouth mus-
Hlstological Observations in Human Os- cles became weak; there was a little head-
leomalacia. ache and a slight cough. The pupils were
Gino Baggio has examined histologically normal and the temperature practically '
the bones of four victims of osteomalacia, normal throughout. The muscles were found ';
one man, and two women who died of in- to be weak or paralyzed in whole groups, ^
tercurrent affections in advanced life, though not wasted. There was no reaction '
There were found only islands of calcified of degeneration, the reflexes were abolished,
bone substance. The osseous trabeculae but everywhere sensation was normal. The 1
were traversed by canals filled with fibrous muscles were extremely tender when grasp- |
substance rich in vessels. There were three ed, and passive movements of the limbs .1
types of medulla, lymphoid, fibrous, and were very painful. The bladder and rec-'.^
fatty; of these the fibrous predominated, tum were not affected, and no bedsores oc- i!
The bone corpuscles found in the ossified curred, although he was in bed continuous- Ij
portions showed elongation toward the peri- ly for six months. For a time the intercos- ;
phery of the islands, their shape being pre- tal muscles were entirely paralyzed, so that -',
served only at the center. In the uucalci- there was imminent danger of respiratory jj
fied portions the structure consisted of failure.
fibrous tissue in large parallel bundles. Treatment resolved itself into strychnine^;
The corpuscles in the osteoid zones were and belladonna internally, and then strych-'^large
and with dilated, short prolongations, nine alternately with sodium salicylate. !
When the process of osteomalacic alteration Eventually he recovered sufficiently to be
is in progress the limits between soteoid moved to an infirmary, where he could get ,
and calcffiod tissues are changed coutin- about pretty comfortably with the aid of a '
ally by a dissolving of the calcerous salts wheeled chair.—British Med. Jour. 1
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