I beg your pardon for using a medical expression; it is because I am in a place where nothing but congestions and the way to get rid of them is talked about.
As the kidney is the visual channel by which the bacteria leave the system, this organ is liable to be implicated when microphytes exist in the blood, and congestions and blood extravasions are produced.
Lying on the back is injurious, since by so doing the spine becomes heated, especially if the person sleeps on feathers, the circulation is obstructed and local congestions are encouraged.
The lesions found after death are not specific in character, and consist mainly of a marked alteration of the blood, congestions of internal organs, softening of the heart, and atrophy of the brain.
To Biermer it appears more probable that the congestions so common in influenza, not attended by marked physical signs until they lead to oedema, are to be regarded as the cause of the dyspnoea.
It goes quickly to the liver, irritates it, and little by little causes congestions of the liver, so that sooner or later sclerosis of this organ develops.
If, however, these passive congestions are long continued, some organs soon become chronically degenerated.
These patients must not become chilled, as they are liable to catch cold, and a cold with them must not be neglected, as coughing or lung congestions are always more serious in valvular disease.
It is probable that the overgrowth of connective tissue is induced by the repeated congestions of the malarial attacks, and by the obstruction due to catarrh of the bile-ducts which so often occurs in the febrile paroxysms.
Their persistence finally induces grave disorders of nutrition, marked by the blood becoming poor and thin, by sluggish {766} circulation and local congestions in the pelvic and abdominal viscera, and loss of strength and flesh.
Paresis of the rectum has been noticed as a result of chronic congestions of the heart and in hepatic disease.
A tendency to general stasis, specially marked bycongestions of the lungs and brain, is present.
Others consider the causative factor to be the formation of thromboses in the capillaries of the brain, lungs, and other organs, inducing active and obstructive congestionscausing death by apnœa or coma.
And the loss to the large users of railroad facilities because of these earlier congestions is no vague thing; it can be figured high in the millions of dollars.
See to it that there are no such causes of pelvic congestions as prolapsed bowels, caused by tight clothing or constipation; keep the skin active; and, above all, keep the mind healthfully occupied.
This kind of a bath is very useful for all chronic congestions of the abdominal and pelvic viscera, such as piles, constipation, painful menstruation, leucorrhea, or other affections of the reproductive organs.
I administered the whisky upon the same principle that governs us when we apply stimulating lotions to an inflamed eye, or give alcoholic liquors in passive congestions of other parts of the body.
In the beginning I had found the use of leeches applied to the arms particularly beneficial, and they were afterward repeated two or three times annually when I felt congestionsin the head.
By such a faulty diet the tone of the system is lowered, and local congestions of different parts of the body are produced.
The cramped position of the chest interferes with respiration; the bowels are generally constipated, and both conditions again favor congestions of the visceral organs, including the uterus, but not confined to it.
The peculiarity in the female consists in the greater degree of periodicity in the complete development of such cells, in the periodical congestions of a secondary organ, the uterus, and in the loss of blood effected by these.
Temporary congestions become permanent, and develop into permanent irritations and disorders.
Congestion and other diseases are other ultimate results of the habit; and these congestions to which it gives rise unduly hasten the advent of puberty.
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