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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, and yet the pulse will be hard and firm. Palpitation of theheart, languor, early fatigue, and inability for prolonged effort arecommonly present, soon or late, while pallor, ansemia, or at least ageneral appearance of being below par, assist the professional eye Fig. 117 to detect a subjectof this disease. Themental tendency isgloomy, to bluesand irritability oftemper, and lack ofhope and ambition.In advanced casesan inflammation ofthe retina (the deeplight-sensing mem-brane of the eye),called retinitis, isquite characteristicof the disease;while the ears aresubject to noisesnot at all distinc-tive, except, per-haps, in their per-sistence. CEdema,in form of puffylower eye-lid andswelled ankles, isone of the commonlater symptoms, while general dropsy from weakening heart comestoward the last. It must not be supposed that any one case will include all, or evena fourth of all these symptoms, and yet in the course of years themajority of them may appear in turn, or a few at a time. When
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The kidney cnt through; I, vein; 2,leading to bladder. artery; 3, ureter 442 CHRONIC AFFECTIONS OF THE URINARY ORGANS. some such symptoms are present, and the question arises as to diag-nosis of the true state of the patient, an examination of the urinewill aid in settling whether the kidneys are or are not subject tothis disease. One of the proofs of its presence is the discovery ofalbumen in the urine, by special tests which will readily detect thepresence of so small an amount as one part in 10,000. The signifi-cance of albumen thus found is yet undecided. Many physiciansclaim that under some circumstances it may be found in the urineof healthy persons, as of soldiers or athletes after prolonged effort,while others claim that it cannot occur without some weakness orpredisposition to Brights. Life insurance examiners, as a rule,hold off a candidate for insurance if even a small trace of albu-men is detected, until repeated examinations show that it no longeroccurs. Yet, on the other

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