Report of Professor Delafield's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine, 1888 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Delafield, Francis

 
9781330933862: Report of Professor Delafield's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine, 1888 (Classic Reprint)

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The patients become anaemic, they are emaciated, or, although remaining fat, are feeble and flabby. The ingestion of fats is followed by distress. They are con stipated, with flatulence and its associated pains. The faeces are hard and light-colored. The tongue is coated, the mouth and throat dry, with a bitter taste. The skin is pale and muddy-looking. The appetite is poor and capricious. The urine contains an excess of phosphate and oxalate of lime. There are headache, mental lassi tude, abnormal sensations in different parts of the body. In the bad cases hypochondriasis, neurasthenia, hysteria, or melancholia may be developed.

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