Lendel has published a series of 7 cases observed at Rouen, in which the entire body became very oedematous in the second or third week of the attack or during convalescence.
Its circumference is very considerable, and amounts sometimes to the treble or quadruple of the normal, in consequence of the oedematous condition of the entire tissue.
The lymphatic glands are frequently inflamed and swollen, either hard or doughy, oedematous or congested.
In yet other cases the red blush sweeps away from its first position in tongue-like projections over a {632} tumid and painful skin, while the region first invaded becomes paler, though still preserving its oedematous features.
The superficial, yellow patches or localized oedematous blebs, with corresponding atrophy of the convolutions beneath, call attention to a nutritive disturbance, as do cyst-like cavities in the deeper parts of the brain.
They are associated usually with oedematous swelling of the labia.
The action of the heart now becomes laborious, the lungs oedematous and filled with coarse râles, and a terrible sense of suffocation comes over the patient, causing him to seek relief by constant change of position.
The oedematous condition causes a functional paralysis of the vocal cords, together with marked dyspnoea on inspiration.
Oedematous swelling of the mucous membrane and submucous tissue is often observed for a long period to come; elongated uvulæ, enlarged tonsils, often date back to such an acute attack.
Numbers who recovered from the measles were afterwards affected with debility, cough, emaciation and oedematous swellings of the face and extremities which proved very difficult to remove.
Even the whole body might be oedematous in some degree, retaining the impression of the finger.
The parotids are commonly swelled and painful; and if the disease be violent, the neck and throat are surrounded with a large oedematous tumour threatening suffocation.
Oedematous Laryngitis is a very fatal condition, which may occur, though rarely, as a sequence of acute laryngitis.
In favourable cases, which form the majority, the attack tends to abate in a few days, but the inflammation may become of the oedematous variety, and death may occur suddenly from an asphyxial paroxysm.
Phthisis is occasionally attended, toward its close, by oedematous legs and albuminous urine, but I cannot report any important relation between these and peritoneal effusion.
It is most common in the femoral and saphenous veins, and is rapidly followed by painful oedematous swelling of the affected extremity.
Perhaps there is a little oedematous pitting about the ankles.
Sometimes the inflammation descends to the larynx, and this may produce oedematous infiltration of the loose connective tissue of that structure.
If the mechanism of this oedematous swelling be as supposed, the effusion into the areolar tissue necessarily succeeds to the abdominal effusion.
A hard, circumscribed swelling of the cheek or cheek and lip occurs, sometimes preceded, as already intimated, by general oedematous infiltration.
A transudation of serum takes place into the mucous layer, and in more marked congestion into the submucous layer also; these tissues become more or less oedematous and swollen.
With the abatement of pain there is coincident increase in the signs of inflammation: the joint swells, the skin becomes red and oedematous around the joint, and the superficial veins are distended.
It is quite surprising how rapidly a case clears up at times after the evacuation of even only a drachm or two of oedematous fluid.
In these cases there is provoked a hyperplasia of much-elongated connective tissue in the submucous space which undergoes serous infiltration and causes an oedematous condition of the part.
In a few cases the gums are but slightly altered, perhaps oedematous only or pitting upon pressure, or they become the site of bloody extravasations.
When the uvula is elongated or oedematous it is often a constant source of irritation and discomfort.
The swellings of the tonsils are sensible to the eye and touch externally, and have an elastic rather than an oedematous feel, like parts in the vicinity of gangrenes.
Almost invariably these symptoms are added to by a more or less diffuse and oedematous swelling of the lower portion of the limb, extending in some cases to as high as the fetlock or the upper third of the cannon.
This is indicated by the swollen and oedematous nature of the lymphatics of the limb.
Separation of the hoof for about 2 inches at the hinder part of the coronet; oedematous swelling from foot to knee, extending during the next three days to the elbow.
The glans was small and elongated, with the meatus red, and with lips oedematous and congested.
The feet and genital organs may be oedematous (watery swelling), jaundice is slight and does not occur until late.
At the onset the mucous membrane of the eustachian tube and middle ear becomes first congested and afterward oedematous (watery swelling).
In anasarca, an error is sometimes committed, especially by young practitioners, of estimating the degree of danger, and the necessity for active treatment, by the single consideration of the extent of the oedematous swelling.
But if the Patient was very weak; or had a Hectic Fever or Purging; or other Disorders, and the oedematous Swellings large; then oftentimes the great Discharge exhausted his Strength, and a Gangrene and Death were the Consequence.
In addition to the aggravation of his other symptoms, there were present oedematous swelling of the extremities, which were generally cold and benumbed, gnawing pain in the right hypochondriac region, and almost total loss of appetite.
Varicose and oedematous swellings of the labia and nymphae.
The extremity being now swelled throughout its whole extent, appears perfectly or nearly uniform, and it is not perceptibly lessened by a horizontal position, as an oedematous limb.
A considerable degree of suffering and annoyance to the patient may arise from oedematous swelling of the labia and nymphae, both previous to and during her labour.
I have known the whole of the cellular substance lining the pelvis so much distended by oedematous tumefaction, as to make the pelvis greatly narrowed in its capacity, which repose for some hours has diminished, or entirely removed.
In the greater number, they have subsided in two or three weeks, and sometimes earlier, and the limb has then been left in a powerless and oedematous state.
Varicose and oedematous swellings of the labia and nymphae also deserve mention, although they rarely interfere with the progress of labour to any great extent.
The smear preparations for staining and culture inoculations upon slants were also made at the bedside from aspirated matter obtained from oedematous periglandular tissues or from gland puncture, an aspirating syringe being used.
The swelling was elastic, yielding to the pressure of the finger, but not in any manner like an oedematous limb.
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