This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...apparatus from normal operate in its production: e.g. nervous, nutritional and toxic (including infections). Thus, tetany may occur: (1) During the course of pregnancy and lactation. (The tetany of nursing women--Trousseau.) (2) In the course of, or following, acute infectious diseases, particularly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...apparatus from normal operate in its production: e.g. nervous, nutritional and toxic (including infections). Thus, tetany may occur: (1) During the course of pregnancy and lactation. (The tetany of nursing women--Trousseau.) (2) In the course of, or following, acute infectious diseases, particularly those of childhood--scarlatina, measles, tuberculosis, influenza, acute articular rheumatism, pneumonia; and in intestinal and other alimentary tract infections--typhoid, cholera, diarrhcea. (3) In the course of nutritional disturbances, especially in childhood--rickets, osteomalacia; or in gastric and intestinal disorders--gastric or intestinal dilatation and stagnation. (Tetany of infants, gastric tetany.) (4) In toxaemias of intestinal origin--anaerobic and other infections of the bowel, helminthiasis. (5) As a result of poisoning by lead, ergotin, morphine, phosphorus, alcohol, chloroform, carbonic acid, or the poisons of uraemia. (6) In the course of goitre, cretinism, Graves' disease and myxcedema; and under the influence of certain psychic factors in those predisposed to it. (7) In the course of some nervous diseases: cerebral tumour, syringomyelia, cysts of the cerebellum and epilepsy. All these factors will be more likely to produce the symptomcomplex of tetany in those in whom there is a congenital instability or actual injury of the parathyroid glands. Tetany may occur as sporadic cases or in epidemic form, and is endemic in certain localities. Its etiological features may be illustrated by a consideration of the malady as it occurs in endemic form. ENDEMIC TETANY 11 Endemic tetany occurs in such large cities as Vienna and Heidelberg, where it is known as idiopathic or occupation tetany. The endemic tetany of cities possesses very...
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