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Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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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. Bloodgood * reports severalcases of persisting angioneurotic erythema cured by deep incisions. LOCALIZED HYPERTROPHIES. Symmetrical Lipomatosis.—Occurring commonly in adults, andusually on a background of syphilis or alcoholism, are cases manifesting i Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., May, 1903. TE 0 PHONE UE OSES. 521 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
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Fig. 228.— Symmetrical adenolipornatosis (Launois and Bensailde). 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 adiposis dolorosa of Dercum, the cases of Petersonand Loveland, and the adenolipornatosis of Launois and Bensaudex1 Nouv. Icon, de la Salpet,, 1900. 522 NEUROSES. (Fig. 228) appear to belong to the same group. Peterson, Collins, andothers look upon the condition as due to a rudimentary polyneuritis,and the idea is supported by the common history of alcoholic addictionor luetic infection. In addition, sciatic neuritis, herpes zoster, optic-nerve symptoms, and other distinct indications of neuritic affection

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