Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . Case of adiposis dolorosa in a male. (Dercum.) sensation of a bag of worms beneaththe skin. Each painful crisis leaves be-hind it very appreciable changes. Inan area where nothing existed pre-viously, we find after a crisis a diffuseedematous tumefaction: if the tume-faction has existed previous to thecrisis, we find it transformed into alobulated tumor more or less well en- eventually attain great size. The vari-ous stages of the evolution of thesemasses can be followed very closely bypalpation. One and the same patient,besides, usually p
Sajous's analytical cyclopædia of practical medicine . Case of adiposis dolorosa in a male. (Dercum.) sensation of a bag of worms beneaththe skin. Each painful crisis leaves be-hind it very appreciable changes. Inan area where nothing existed pre-viously, we find after a crisis a diffuseedematous tumefaction: if the tume-faction has existed previous to thecrisis, we find it transformed into alobulated tumor more or less well en- eventually attain great size. The vari-ous stages of the evolution of thesemasses can be followed very closely bypalpation. One and the same patient,besides, usually presents in variousregions tumors in various stages ofdevelopment. Painful crises supervene usually with-out appreciable cause; at times they are 392 ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA (DERCUM). provoked by trauma and at others theyensue upon unusual exertion. The pa-tient is frequently very positive instating that slight contusions of thesurface or that excessive fatigue pro-vokes the painful crises. The tumors are, of course, variablein size. Some of the very smalle
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