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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 620 of 653Softening of the Stonuich.Anatomical CharaeterisHcs. In the case of children themucous coat of the stomach, especially in the region of the culsac, is found transformed into a gelatinous, colorless pulp whichm the case of adults, has a dirty-brown color. There are no signsof gastritis or ulceration. During the formative stage of the sofing the mucous coat is interstitially distended, soft and lax ; ieasily destroyed by scraping it with the back of the scalpel andcan no longer, as in its normal condition, be detached in patchesfrom the submucous cellular tissue. In a high degree of softeningall the coats of the stomach decay and the shape of the stomach isustained only by the thin, gauzy peritoneum which tears by theslightest touch; or else the stomach is perforated and its contenare poured into the abdominal cavity or, if the oesophagus is involved in the softening, into the thorax, more especially into itleft half. If the serous coat is intact, the stomach is mostly ditended with gas and chiefly contains a badly-colored, sourfluid. The softened parts are never sharply circumscribed; thesoftening always commences in the mucous coat whence it spreadsoutwardly, frequently drawing the (Bsophagus, the spleen and theleft half of the diaphragm into the morbid process.Etiology. Gastromalacia most commonly attacks children ofa year old, whose constitutions have become deteriorated by improper nourishment, by disease or general neglect. It most frequently occurs after weaning.Secondarily it is apt to set in as a sequel of cholera infantum ;sometimes it develops itself in the course of hydrocephalus andmeningitis.In the case of adults, gastromalacia always constitutes a secondary process developing itself in the course of malignant typhus,pyeemia, puerperal fever, acute tuberculosis, tubercular meningitis, etcThe circumstance that softening of the stomach has been metwith in the case of perfectly healthy individuals who suddenly dishortly after a meal, and that the stomachs of infants at the bre47 (737J738 Gastrotnalacia.are always found in a state of softening if they contain milk shoafter the infants' death, has led modern pathologists to assert tsoftening of the stomach is under all circumstances a simple postmortem appearance. It is possible and probable that many casesof gastromalacia are simple post-mortem appearances in the cadaver ; on the other hand it is likewise certain that many forms ofgastromalacia have been correctly diagnosed as independent diseases which were verified as such by post-mortem examinations.Symptoms. The gastromalacia of children^ as an idiopathichttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt
Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 621 of 653disease, at times manifests itself in the form of cholera, at othtimes as a gastritis, again as an acute hydrocephalus and finallywith the symptoms of a typhoid condition.The cholera-form of the disease sets in with frequent vomitingof greenish, mostly sour-smelling slimy fluids; simultaneouslyoccurring alvine discharges having a green color, of watery coiisistence, sour-smelling and corroding the anus; unquenchable thirsudden collapse, fainting turns, convulsions, coldness of the extities, speedy supervention of sopor ; such an attack generally sein without any precursory symptoms and with so much violencethat the little patients are either saved or else succumb to theattack in twenty-four hours.Or the symptoms of tjastritis may set in suddenly without anyprecursory signs : the children are very feverish, cry incessantlwant to drink and to be carried about all the time, belch up windfrequently, vomit frequently without any relief, and have waterydischarges from the bowels, which corrode the anus, are attendedwith severe pain and cause the little patients to draw their limbup to the abdomen. At the same time the region of the stomachis very painful, exceedingly sensitive to contact, the abdomen ishot and distended, the skin much warmer than usual. If we donot succeed in speedily arresting the attack, the patients emaciavery rapidly, the features collapse, the skin gradually cools offcrying of the patients gradually changes to a continual moaning,and they lapse into sopor or convulsions.The hj'^droceijhaloid as well as the typhoid form never set inwithout precursory symptoms. Most commonly they consist incontinual diarrhoea, frequent eructations, occasional sour vomitiwith sleeplessness, peevish or very irritable mood, pallor and expression of suffering of the countenance, loss of appetite. In adays the fever increases, the vomiting and diarrhceic dischargesbecome more frequent, the abdomen becomes bloated;, the head.Softening of the Stomach. 789which had been hot hitherto, and the extremities gradually cooloff, whereas the trunk and especially the abdomen feel hot ; verysoon the little patients become apathetic and, with their eyes haclosed, lie in a soporous condition, from which, however, they areasily roused when spoken to. Thoy hurriedly grasp the tumbler,hold on to it with both hands and are unwilling to relinquish thehold. Very often they start from their slumber with a cry, and,after looking about wildly, they relapse into their sopor. At thesame time the children become rapidly emaciated, especially aboutthe neck ; the pulse becomes smaller and more hurried, the alvinoevacuations acquire a foul odor, become watery, are destitute offsecal matter and distinguished from the urine only by their cadaverous smell ; the respiration becomes short and labored, and isoften accompanied by a tormenting cough. Finally there is complete loss of consciousness and sensibility, the eyeballs are disspasms or convulsions set in, with symptoms of the most profoundexhaustion.This hydrocephaloid condition is distinguished from true hydrocephalus by the absence of the pathognomonic signs of the latter,http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt
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