The Morbid Anatomy of Croup

The morbid anatomy of high altitude.

PROLONGED exposure to the chronic hypoxia of high altitude is associated with structural changes in many systems of the body. Such effects are developed to the greatest extent in native highlanders and they have been studied largely in the Quechua and Aymara peoples of the High Andes of Peru. This account is based on experience gained on four expeditions to the area around Cerro de Pasco in Cen...

The Pathology and Morbid Anatomy of Myxœdema

Myxcedema. The primary most essential fact in the pathology of the disease was the atrophic change in the thyroid gland. There was little accurate knowledge as to the cause of this change. The functions of the thyroid gland were obscure, even with the light that modern investigation had thrown upon them. It was only certainly known that in some way this highly-vascular, ductless gland was conce...

Manual of Practical Morbid Anatomy

Medical Morbid Anatomy and Pathology

are said to be " found most often on the lips or tongue," although the majority of observers regard tonsillar chancre as the commonest extra-genital primary lesion. The characters of the secondary " snail-crawl" ulceration are not made plain, and Hutchinson's teeth are described as " wider at the margins than the base," which, if by margin is meant the cutting edge, is certainly inaccurate. Man...

Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy

Morbid Anatomy.A A t? i "iir a -By Sir A. ABowxby and Sir FWAndrewESSeventh Edition. J. & A. Churchill, 1920. Price 30|netThis well known book makes its appearance in the Seventh Edition in a new guise. The book is larger and wider and more convenient to handle, the printing is large and clear whilst the illustrations are drawn on a bigger scale than in the former editions. It is eminently a ha...