Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . recorded by Pro-fessor Romberg of Berlin. It was that of an unmarried woman, agedtwenty-eight, in whom, as the result of extensive suppuration on theleft side of the neck, which burst through the tonsil, the features onthe corresponding side ofthe face gradually becameatrophied, without any di-minution of sensibility ormotion. Looking at thetwo halves of the face sepa-rately, it appeared as if theone belonged to a young,and the other to an oldwoman. By some it wassupposed that the diseasedside was sound, and thatthe other was swoll
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . recorded by Pro-fessor Romberg of Berlin. It was that of an unmarried woman, agedtwenty-eight, in whom, as the result of extensive suppuration on theleft side of the neck, which burst through the tonsil, the features onthe corresponding side ofthe face gradually becameatrophied, without any di-minution of sensibility ormotion. Looking at thetwo halves of the face sepa-rately, it appeared as if theone belonged to a young,and the other to an oldwoman. By some it wassupposed that the diseasedside was sound, and thatthe other was swollen. Thehair, eyebrows, and eye-lashes were very thin onthe affected side, and shewas in the habit of divid-ing her hair towards theright, so as to equalise thequantity. Every feature,including the brow, eye,nostril, lips, cheek, andchin, as well as the lefthalf of the tongue andleft palatine arch, was smaller than those of the opposite one. Further illustrations of the general principles now detailed wLlconstantly met with under the head of special Fig. 134. INFLAMMATION. The important morbid change in the animal economy denominatedinflammation, is so intimately interwoven with the theory and practiceof medicine, that it meets us at the very commencement of our patho-logical inquiries. In all ages it has been made the pivot upon whichthe medical philosophy of the time has revolved, and any doctrine capableof explaining the various phenomena it presents, cannot but furnish thoseprinciples on which our science and art must ultimately rest. I.—Phenomena op Inflammation.—When, with the view of deter-mining the phenomena of inflammation, we sufficiently irritate the trans-parent vascular membrane of some animal—such as the web of the frogsfoot—we observe, 1st, An increased rapidity of the circulation in thesmaller vessels; 2d, That the same vessels become enlarged, and thecurrent of blood is slower, although even; 3d, That the flow of blood Fig. 134. Remarkable at
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