Nervous and mental diseases . must be placed on thosegeneral measures which are fitted to combat the neuropathic constitutionand build up the usually depraved systemic condition. The treatmentof the attack is symptomatic. Morphin for gastro-intestinal crises, heatand compression to the swelling, and tracheotomy or intubation ifrespiratory failure is seriously threatened. Bloodgood1 reports severalcases of persisting angioneurotic erythema cured by deep incisions. LOCALIZED HYPERTROPHIES. Symmetrical Lipomatosis.—Occurring commonly in adults, and usually on a background of syphilis or alcoholis
Nervous and mental diseases . must be placed on thosegeneral measures which are fitted to combat the neuropathic constitutionand build up the usually depraved systemic condition. The treatmentof the attack is symptomatic. Morphin for gastro-intestinal crises, heatand compression to the swelling, and tracheotomy or intubation ifrespiratory failure is seriously threatened. Bloodgood1 reports severalcases of persisting angioneurotic erythema cured by deep incisions. LOCALIZED HYPERTROPHIES. Symmetrical Lipomatosis.—Occurring commonly in adults, and usually on a background of syphilis or alcoholism, are cases manifestingi Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., May, 1903. TROPHONEUROSES. 537 localized and symmetrical fatty deposits. These may be tender and theseat of spontaneous pain or comparatively insensitive, and the pain maybe quite insignificant. Their favorite location is about the neck, thediffuses Lipoma des Halses of the Germans ; over the body, as in thecase of Hugier, which presented twenty symmetrical pairs; in the. Fig. 230.—Symmetrical adenolipornatosis (Launois and Ben*ande). axillae and groins; or on the extremities, as in the case reported byMathieu, one pair over the trochanters, one pair on the inner side ofthe knees. The adenolipomatosis of Launois and Bensaude* (Fig. 230)appears to belong to the same group. 1 Xouv. Icon, de la Salpet., 1900. 538 NEUROSES. The ill-defined fatty masses are commonly spread out at their removal of the fatty tumors is sometimes indicated.
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