Classic Descriptions of Disease, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors

xxxii, 679 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; I. Infectious Diseases: The Theory of Infection; Syphilis; Tuberculosis; Plague; Malaria; Yellow Fever; Tetanus; Diphtheria; Typhus Fever; Typhoid Fever; Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis; Scarlet Fever; Smallpox and Measles; Measles; Mumps; Influenza; Sweating Fever; Chickenpox; Glandular Fever; Whooping Cough; Rheumatic Fever; Relapsing Fever; Sleeping Sickness; Schonlein's Disease; Focal Infection; Hodgkin's Disease. II. Diseases of Metabolism: Diabetes Mellitus; Thyroid Disease; Tetany; Gout; Addison's Disease and Pernicious Anemia; Paget's Disease; Achondroplasia; Osteomalacia; Myositis Ossificans Progressiva; Heberden's Nodes; Acromegaly; Frohlich's Disease; Persistent Thymus. III. Lead Poisoning; IV. Diseases of the Circulatory System: Heart-Block; Aortic Insufficiency; Mitral Stenosis; Pulmonary Stenosis; Aortic Stenosis; Pulsus Alternans; Gallop Rhythm; Auricular Fibrillation; Extra-Systoles; Paroxysmal Tachycardia; Pericarditis; Angina Pectoris; Coronary Occlusion; Digitalis; Aneurysm; Endocarditis; Apoplexy; Raynaud's Disease; Buerger's Disease; Erythromelalgia. V. Diseases of the Blood: Chlorosis; Pernicious Anemia; Sickle-Cell Anemia; Polycythemia; Leukemia; Purpura; Hemophilia. VI. Kidney Diseases: Chronic Nephritis; Paroxysmal Hemoglobinuria. VII. Respiratory Diseases: Cheyne-Stokes' Respiration; Mountain Sickness; Bronchial Cast; Skodaic Resonance; Lobar Pneumonia; Pleurisy and Empyema; Asthma; Pneumothorax; Emphysema. VIII. Deficiency Diseases: Scurvy; Rickets; Sprue; Beriberi; Pellagra; Nyctalopia. IX. Allergic Diseases: Hay-Fever; Allergy in Infectious Diseases; Angioneurotic Edema. X. Diseases of the Digestive Tract: Cardiospasm; Peptic Ulcer; Cirrhosis of the Liver; Gallstones; Appendicitis.