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RECENT TIMES.*,
appearance of syphilitic affections known,in Scotland under
the name of Sibbens and under that of Radesyge in
Scandinavia.
Remarkable progress in certain directions was also made
during this period in the diagnosis of disease, but its full
significance was certainly not recognized until later. On
the examination of the urine as a means of diagnosis
SOLANO DE LUQUES, T. BORDEU and others imparted some
new and valuable information although they also made
many singular and even ridiculous statements upon the
same subject. Other means of diagnosis also began to be
used. SANTORIO made use of the thermometer to determine
the temperature of the body, and BOERHAAVE, COCK-
BURN and others made extensive use of that instrument in
their practice* ANTON DE HAEN in this way established
the fact that in the rigors of fever the temperature of the
body is not reduced, as was then generally assumed to be
the case, but, on the contrary, raised: he also first drew
attention to the remarkable phenomenon of post-mortem .
elevation of temperature, and observed that the subjective
feeling of warmth by no means always corresponds to the
real temperature, and that the temperature of paralyzed
limbs is lower than that of healthy ones.f
Diseases of the heart excited great interest. LANCISI
connected pulsation in the jugular veins, with dilatation of
the right side of the heart resulting from incompetence of
the tricuspid valve.J ALBERTINI remarked very appropriately
that the difficulty of diagnosis in heart disease
depends in great measure upon the fact that in it pathological
conditions of various kinds coexist and he advised
that in examining the heart the hand of the doctor should
be laid upon the cardiac region of the patient.§ By far
* WUNDERI.ICH: Das Verhalten der Eigenwarme in Krankheiten, Leipzig
1870.
t TH. PUSCHMANN : Die Medicin in Wien, 1884, S. 19.
X LANCISI : De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, Lugd.. Batav. 1740, p. 306,
pars, ii., cap. 6, prop. 60.
§ ALBERTINI : Opuscula ed. M. H. ROMBERG, Berol. 1828.
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