Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations (1914) (14771022185)

Identifier: geriatricsdisea00nasc (find matches)
Title: Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nascher, I. L. (Ignatz Leo), 1863-
Subjects: Geriatrics
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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Pagets Disease. Nouvelle Iconographie dela Salpetriere, May-June, 1905.
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Pagets Disease Radiogram of lower jaw showing waste of bony structure. (Courtesyof S. Epstein, New York.) GOUT 351 In some cases there are vague pains and aches as in chronicrheumatism, occasionally there are paroxysmal sharp painsin the affected bones. Pain is sometimes present throughoutthe disease, in some cases aggravated upon walking, in somecases coming on in paroxysms, in other cases absent. Whenthe spinal column is pressed upon, as may occur in the deformitythat accompanies spinal osteitis deformans, or when a nerveis compressed the pain becomes increasingly severe. The mostimportant symptoms are thickening and malformation of thebones, the character and extent of deformity depending uponthe location of the affected bones and the amount of pressureto which they are subjected. For this reason the spine andlovrer extremities are most deformed, the increased curvatureof the spine producing a change in the shape of the thorax. The only disease which bears any marked resemblance to