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Clinical lectures on the diseases of old age (1881)
Clinical lectures on the diseases of old age - 1881 Author:Jean Martin Charcot Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I think enough has been advanced, gentlemen, to convince you that a senile pathology does exist. And to offer you a striking example of the modification which ag... more »e may impress on manifestations of disease, we shall study, at our next lecture, the febrile state in old age, and endeavor to point out the analogies and the differences existing between it and the febrile condition in the adult. which occurred n,t the most advanced age was one in a man of eighty-four. Relapsing fever is less frequent than typhus in old age, although several examples of it have been observed ; over fifty years the proportion is 0.(3 per 100; over sixty it is 1.0 per 100. Old women are more exposed to these two diseases than are old men. For typhoid fever the proportion is 1.40 per 100 over fifty years; and 0.5 per 100 over sixty. These figures are enough to show that the relative immunity enjoyed by the aged in respect to the continued fevers is far from being absolute.—A Treatise on Continued Fever in Great Britain, pp 01, 303, and 410. London, 1802. Now, as regards phthisis, Vulpian and myself have noticed that tuberculization is more frequent in the Salpi tricre than is generally supposed. One of Vulpian's students, Mr. Monreton, in his inaugural thesis, reports nine cases of acute tuberculosis in the aged. Three of the patients were over eighty, and acute phthisis was primary in all of these cuses except one,—Thèse de Paris. 1868. Each year in the Salpôtrière we notice some cases of cérébro-spinal meningitis foudroyante. Since 1852 I have gathered quite a number of facts of this kind, which will be found collected in the thesis of Dr. Inglessis.—Sur quelques Cas de Méningite Cerebro spinale observas à la Salpi'trière pendant le printemps de 1853. Thèses de Parie. 1855. LECTUEE II. THE F...« less