This state of asthenicdiathesis is called indirect debility, because it is not produced by directly subtracting the powers which support life, but indirectly, by over stimulating.
We cannot, however, fail to recognize a diathesis which, while still apparently healthy, is predisposed to hysteria.
Women of a highly-nervous diathesis suffer much more from these drains than robust women.
The tuberculous diathesis (or "habit," as Weismann calls it) was very early observed in the United States.
The arthritic diathesis occurs also; it is one of the underlying conditions of many neurotic manifestations, often responsible for acquired bony deformities, not infrequently involving the jaws to some extent.
One most striking expression of nutritive degeneracy is haemophilia or the diathesis of the "bleeders.
He cites a case illustrative of the extent and uniformity of diathesis in a very numerous family.
The same conditions also appear in the diathesisof the "bleeders.
It is one of the results of the gouty diathesis (see Rheumatism), and may precede or follow the external manifestations.
If arsenic is used over long periods, or any of the salicylates because of the supposed connection of chorea and an underlying rheumatic diathesis they will certainly do harm.
In that case, appropriate treatment directed to the rheumatic diathesis will also cure the bladder.
Some diseases bring this particular diathesis about, such as scurvy, also measles, scarlatina or smallpox.
Lind's first Paper on Fevers), there is always an inflammatoryDiathesis of the Blood.
Indeed, it may be positively stated that malaria never establishes the hemorrhagic diathesis as a primary effect; and it is only by changes effected in the human economy by its prolonged influence that it appears to become capable of doing so.
Is it possible for one hereditary constitution or diathesis to become, in transmission, not only modified, but transmuted, into another?
But even in the mildest cases yellow fever establishes the hemorrhagic diathesisto an extent sufficient to render the occurrence of hemorrhage an imminent event.
Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth.
But the most common form of anasarca is that which is symptomatic of some visceral disease; and which, as it ordinarily appears, arises from a state of the system that answers to the hydropicdiathesis of systematic authors.
Cousins mentions an individual of hemorrhagic diathesis who succumbed to extensive extravasation of blood at the base of the brain, following a slight fall during an epileptic convulsion.
This hemorrhagic diathesis has been known for many years; and the fact that there were some persons who showed a peculiar tendency to bleed after wounds of a trifling nature is recorded in some of the earliest medical literature.
The nutritive system becomes implicated, and patients are especially prone to develop any diathesis to which they may be liable.
This condition, this mode of life, has existed among them for many hundreds of years, and has so intensified the strumous diathesis among them that almost the whole race may be said to be patently or latently scrofulous.
In other words, we cannot say that these disorders occur in certain children because they are scrofulous, but that they are specially intractable on account of the scrofulous diathesis upon which they are engrafted.
It cannot be surprising, therefore, that Irish children fed upon this diet and reared in ill-ventilated hovels should develop the scrofulous diathesis in legions.
What do we learn from that closely-allied affection, gout, which involves especially the same organs as rheumatism, and is held by many of the ablest pathologists to belong to the same basic diathesis as it?
Lugol maintained that this diathesis is begotten of old and syphilitic fathers, and others state that children of parents nearly related and of those broken down by disease and excesses may inherit it.
The actual exciting causes of scrofula when the diathesis already exists are too numerous to be mentioned in detail.
The connection of the indigestion of fats with the strumous diathesis and with phthisis is undisputed.
DIATH'ESIS is the term given in medicine to a constitutional predisposition to a disease; thus uratic diathesis is a tendency to gout; aneurysmal diathesis is an inherent predisposition to aneurysms.
Chloral hydrate and alcoholic stimulants are less vigorous, and cannot be long tolerated by the stomach, especially if there be a gouty diathesis behind the disease.
In a third class of patients the neuropathic diathesis is not congenital, but is the acquired result of particular injuries or diseases of the head.
In some few cases, however, the calculous diathesis continues, a new concretion is formed, and the patient again applies for relief, perhaps several years afterwards.
The uric acid diathesis is the most frequent; in that, alkalies, as the carbonates of soda or potash, are to be employed; the potash is preferable.
And in them, too, the diathesis or disposition to the formation of one or other variety evidently alternates, as is well demonstrated by section of urinary concretions.
The strumousdiathesis is said to be marked by hair and irides of a very light colour, and by the skin being of a peculiar white hue; but, in some instances, the complexion is unusually dark and sallow.
This aneurismal diathesis occasionally exists in an astonishing degree.
To correct the calculousdiathesis is an object of much importance; solution of the concretion in the bladder is now allowed to be impracticable.
The strumous diathesisis said to depend upon a want of balance, or proportion, between the solids and circulating fluids.
It is not without significance that the blood-vessels in exudative diathesis also show a decided weakness, an increased permeability, as judged by the "capillary resistance test.
The tendency of children with exudative diathesis to develop scurvy is perhaps still another manifestation of vascular weakness.
Probably it is not without significance that in this diathesis the blood-vessels may evince a decided weakness, an increased permeability, as demonstrated by the "capillary resistance test.
In both scurvy and in exudative diathesis eczema and petechial hemorrhages are encountered.
The term insanity is merely a loose descriptive one, and we shall gain little definite knowledge about the inheritance of such maladies until we study each separate insane diathesis specifically.
A neuropathic person who manifests certain anti-social activities is sure to be classed as insane, whereas another individual with the same diathesis in a less degree might pass unrecognized.
For my own part, I see no reason to call in the rheumatic diathesis as a deus ex machina to explain the frequency with which sciatica follows comparatively trifling peripheral impressions like that of cold.
Finally, a tubercular or strumous diathesis seems to be as potent a factor in the causation of fistula as it is in other suppurative troubles.
This is a matter of considerable importance when the fistula penetrates deeply, and also in those rare cases of hemorrhagic diathesis where severe bleeding is apt to follow a trivial incision.
Persons of a scrofulous diathesis are more liable to it than others.
Children of a scrofulous diathesis are especially liable to this affection.
The more it is repeated the more inveterate it becomes, and the greater the likelihood of its becoming generalised; at the same time the influence of the neuropathic diathesis is intensified.
At the same time they are always grafted on a certain neuropathic diathesis akin to that of chorea; in fact, they are nought else than a form of chorea themselves.
Let the man with a dypso-maniac diathesis indulge in the use of intoxicating liquors, and he will surely become a drunkard.
His diathesis excuses him as much in one case as in the other.
This diathesis followed the ordinary laws of descent, and eventually those families which were fortunate enough to be affected in that way exterminated their rivals.
Apart from that however, how does Mr Morgan suppose his eugenicdiathesis to be transmitted?
The recent literature of telepathy and hypnotism furnishes many striking examples of this diathesis of impostors of both sexes.
Thus some lose their bloom and, yielding to the great danger of young womanhood, slowly lapse to a anxious state of expectancy, or desire something not within their reach, and so the diathesis of restlessness slowly supervenes.
His peculiar diathesis enabled him to conserve their freshness on to full maturity, when he gave them literary form.
The constraint of city, home, and school is especially irksome, and if to this repulsion is added the attraction of a love of nature and of perpetual change, we have the diathesis of the roadsman already developed.
In it are those who are germinally physical weaklings or deformed, those born with a hereditary diathesis or predisposition toward some serious disease (e.
Among the most careful contributions to the problem of tuberculosis are those of Charles Goring (On the Inheritance of the Diathesis of Phthisis and Insanity, London, 1910), Ernest G.
