Inhaltsangabe
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. 1883 Excerpt: ...skull, occasionally involving the internal table and the diploe, and in such case sometimes disappearing spontaneously without involving the scalp, and without a trace of necrosis, but leaving distinct evidences of loss of bony substance through the influence of pressure by the material cause, the tumor. Similar tumors of bone may occur at any point throughout the bony system, producing disturbance by pressure on important structures. Tumors in the various organs of the body, occur apparently from similar causes, and in the same irregular way in point of time, involving, in order of frequency, as follows: Testes, liver, kidneys, brain, lungs, heart, etc. In some cases walls of the blood-vessels are found infiltrated with the same material of which the tu mors of syphilitic origin arefound to be composed, and become obstructed, as in the brain, often causing fatty degeneration of the structures to which they are distributed. In some cases, cicatricial bands are found to develop in organs the subject of syphilitic tumors, and by contraction and consequent constriction, destroy the secreting structures, notably seen in the liver and testes of subjects suffering from the later effects of the syphilitic influence in these organs. It will thus be seen that the diseased conditions, enumerated as characteristic of chronic syphilis (the tertiary and quaternary syphilis of Lancereaux and other authors), are essentially different from true or acute syphilis, in date of appearance, mode and locality of development, and in the entire absence of the contagious syphilitic element. Microscopic examinations have brought to light the very important and interesting fact, that all the various sequelae of syphilis, are characterized by the presence of a peculiar material, which...
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