CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.

REMARKS.

Many of the diseases which will be discussed in these pages
affect primarily and chiefly a certain limited part of the body, the
remainder of the organism either escaping all disease or merely
suffering in sympathy with the affected part. A familiar example
is the ordinary felon. Such affections are classed as local diseases.
In distinction from these, there are numerous diseases which seem
to affect no one part of the body more than others, but which
cause serious interference with the entire organism and all its func­
tions. Such affections, of which intermittent fever, or” ague.” is a
familiar instance, will be described under the name of Constitutional
Diseases in the present section.

Among the most important and frequent of constitutional dis­
eases are the infectious diseases, including the familiar fevers.
Indeed, most of the infectious diseases induce in the subject of
them a considerable degree of fever; though it cannot be, in gen­
eral, stated that the converse of this proposition is true—that the
fevers are necessarily infectious.

CONTENTS CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.

Remarks: Specific Fevers—Eruptive Fevers .—Small-Pox : Stage of invasion; Stage of eruption, cause, treatment.—Small-Pox Varioloid—Small-Pox Vaccination

— Chicken Pox ; Symptoms, treatment.

—Scarlet Fever : cause, symptoms, stage of disquamation.

Scarlatina Maligna or Malignant Scarlet Fever: treatment.

—Measles : stage of disquamation; treatment.

—Roseola: Tables exhibiting the difference between Small-Pox,
Scarlet Fever and Measles.

— Diphtheria: symptoms, cause, treatment.

—Typhoid Fever : symptoms, cause, treatment.

—Typhus Fever : symptoms, treatment.

—Relapsing Fever : cause.

—The Malarial Fevers : symptoms, cold stage, hot stage, cause,
treatment.—Malarial Pernicious Intermittent Fever : symptoms, cause, treatment.—Malarial Remittent Fever : symptoms.

—Yellow Fever : symptoms, treatment.

—Cholera : symptoms, cause, treatment.

—Rheumatism—Acute Articular Rheumatism : symptoms, cause,
treatment.—Chronic Rheumatism : treatment.—Muscular Rheumatism : symptoms.—Gout: symptoms, cause, treatment.—Rheumatic Gout : treatment.

—Scurvy : symptoms, treatment.

—Purpura Hemorrhagica ,

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