The algid or asthenicform begins with vomiting and great prostration.
The invasion may be sudden or gradual, with chill or chilly feelings, followed by symptoms of active fever and later of an asthenic (absence of strength and feeling) fever, with dry tongue and dullness or delirium.
Opium in the asthenic form is the chief agent, and Graves and Stokes were among the first physicians who gave it very largely.
The ancient types of sthenic and asthenic or adynamic, typhoid, bilious, and malarial dysenteries belong rather to history than to modern medicine.
Marked anaemia is as much a feature of subacute as of acute articular rheumatism, and its victims are often of unhealthy or asthenic constitution, and subject to recurring attacks of the disease on but slight provocation.
Allied to this tendency is a spongy state of the gums, with recession and excavation, resulting, in asthenic cases, in absorption of the alveolar processes and falling out of the teeth.
The wakefulness of hysteria, of asthenic mania, and of sexual excitement, is often greatly relieved by the administration of the bromides.
If cerebral hyperaemia be present in these cases, it is usually associated with asthenic conditions of the brain, indicated by paleness of the face and weakness of the pulse.
Cerebral excitement must be calmed, in sthenic cases, with anti-spasmodics and sedatives--in asthenic subjects it must be overcome with food and nervous stimulants.
Psychologists class the feelings bound up with flight, cowering, and prostration under the common head of "asthenic emotion".
In face of the sacred the normal man is visited by a heart-sinking, a wave of asthenic emotion.
No one will deny that fear is the type of asthenic manifestations.
It is not admissible in the asthenic form of wakefulness.
All these measures I had employed previously with success, in many cases of inability to sleep due to delirium tremens, and which is almost always of the passive or asthenic form.
Murchison has proposed for it the name of simple asthenic fever.
Stimulants are to be freely used in all asthenic conditions.
These contrasts have been exhibited on a large scale, for while upon the continent of Europe the disease for the most part has presented sthenic phenomena, it has been more generally asthenic and adynamic in Ireland.
This difference may in part be accounted for by the generally asthenic type of the disease in the first-named country and its more inflammatory character in the others.
In the asthenic form quinia and the mineral acids, nutritious food, and very frequently alcoholic stimulants, must be given from the beginning.
Hence arise the diseases with which the poor are every where afflicted; hence scrofula, epilepsy, and the whole band of asthenic diseases.
In short, when any or several of these causes, which have been mentioned, act upon the body, asthenic diseases are the consequence.
When a slight uneasiness or predisposition is felt, it is almost impossible to say from our feelings whether it leads to a sthenic or an asthenic state: here we must be guided chiefly by the exciting powers.
The inflammatory state has been called the acute rheumatism, and the other, the chronic rheumatism; I would, however, prefer the terms sthenic and asthenic rheumatism.
This complaint, which I would call asthenic catarrh, requires directly opposite treatment from the inflammatory or sthenic catarrh.
The asthenic order may be subdivided into two genera; viz.
I shall now proceed to examine the opposite class of nervous complaints: or such as do really depend on debility, or an asthenic state of the system.
It produces relaxation of the vessels, asthenic or passive inflammation, and even gangrene.
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These latter were to be used in sthenic, the others in asthenic disorders.
Todd believes that Colchicum has often a tendency to change the common acute form of Gout into an asthenic form which is less amenable to treatment.
These were to be used respectively in asthenic and in sthenic disorders.
Carnrick Company, is advertised as “A pluriglandular tonic for asthenic conditions.
By the asthenic and emaciated general condition and the peculiar puffy, spongy state of the gums.
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