. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. -ngitis, and bronchitis. The intestinalcatarrh arising as a complication may lead to chronic cohtis. Tuberculo-sis is a very common sequel. The lesions of measles are such as to renderthe patient peculiarly liable to this infection, but the rapidity -^-ith which 6. ?i«^W. L__^!f«EaC2I J Fig. 233.—Cancrum oris complicating measles.—.\fter Welch and Schamberg. 82 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. tuberculous bronchopneumonia and acute miliary tuberculosis developin many instances renders it probable
. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. -ngitis, and bronchitis. The intestinalcatarrh arising as a complication may lead to chronic cohtis. Tuberculo-sis is a very common sequel. The lesions of measles are such as to renderthe patient peculiarly liable to this infection, but the rapidity -^-ith which 6. ?i«^W. L__^!f«EaC2I J Fig. 233.—Cancrum oris complicating measles.—.\fter Welch and Schamberg. 82 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. tuberculous bronchopneumonia and acute miliary tuberculosis developin many instances renders it probable that a latent tuberculous processhas been roused into activity during the attack. Pulmonary tuberculosisis a common remote sequel of measles in the adult, and miliary tuberculosisand tuberculous meningitis may frequently be traced to measles in earlierlife. In some cases enlarged caseating bronchial glands may be the starting-point of the general infection. Among the rarer sequels are tuberculosisof the cervical lymph-nodes and of the bones and joints. Palsies occuras the result of peripheral neuritis but are much more rare than in diph-theria or scarlet fever. Diagnosis.—The direct diagnosis of well-developed measles after theappearance of the eruption is generally unattended with an epidemic coryza persistent sneezing and fever are suspici
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