New & altered forms of disease - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... allaying as far as possible the inflammatory conditions present, both by the use of the knife and internal medication. Later on, when, in the secondary stage, the bone is thoroughly diseased, nothing but operative interference is of service, and for these latter the writer must refer the reader to the standard works on surgery. TELEGRAPHERS' CRAMP. Since the use of electricity has become so general for the purposes of telegraphing, thedisease known as " Telegraphers' Cramp" has become very prevalent among that class of operatives who are employed in large offices where many messages are daily sent off and received. Some discussion has arisen as to whether the several symptoms which thedisease presents are each in their turn an indication of a more advanced stage in the disorder or are merely more prominent in one case than another by chance or tendency on the part of the individual to any one of them. Thus, some observers have held that the first sign of the disorder was the feeling of distress or fatigue in the overworked extremity, and that the tremors which sometimes occur were the symptoms which came oq, provided the warning given by the fatigue was not heeded, and that disregard of this second symptom brought about the spasm or cramp, or, in other cases, the palsy. Other writers, especially those of the present day, attempted to prove that there is no distinct onward march of the symptoms from fatigue to tremor and from tremor to palsy or cramp, but rather that the disorder is to be divided into four varieties, each one of which may assert itself without the presence of a second. Thus, Lewis tells us that in some cases cramps come on, in others palsy, and in others tremors, while still another variety is separated from its fellows by the predominance o...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217621864
- ISBN 13 9780217621861
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages24
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