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Reflections on the Results of Experience as to the Symptoms of Internal Inflammations by William Pulteney Alison by
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Rudolf Virchow's 1860 English edition. Digitized copy: image 102, printed p. 94, with pp. 93–95 in adjacent images. Lecture III, simple and numerical hypertrophy. The indexed Library of Congress text was inspected; direct item-page access was unavailable.
Hospital reports and lectures on modes of death in the British Medical Journal (1860) by
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Contemporary clinical discussions using syncope, asphyxia and coma in interpreting deaths. Their historical theories and proposed treatments are not endorsed as current science.
Volume 1 (1866), discussion of recurrent fibroid tumour; accompanying contemporary review: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5177827/ .
William Turner, lecture of 27 February 1863. Cited locators: opening; printed pp. 895–897.
On diseases which affect corresponding parts of the body in a symmetrical manner by William Budd by
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William Budd, Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 25 (1842), pp. 100–166, DOI doi.org/10.1177/095952874202500111. Opening observations and constitutional disease. Identity also verified in Wellcome catalogue of the 1842 offprint.
Introductory Address at the Public Opening of the Medical Session, 1866–67 by William Tennant Gairdner by
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William Tennant Gairdner, Glasgow Medical Journal, December 1866, pp. 289–305. Page 294 explicitly treats mercury in pericarditis, diuretics in renal disease and opium in several diseases as contested questions. Used as evidence of contemporary uncertainty.
The Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated by Anatomy by Giovanni Battista Morgagni by
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Primary work in an eighteenth-century English version. Book III, Letter XXX, articles 12–13 locate the preceding anatomical case and the translated extract; volume II, printed p. 53 and continuation. The Oxford exam supplies the assigned Latin wording, including the unclear printed laevi. An independently indexed primary scan was inspected in excerpts; its direct Commons and Internet Archive fulltext endpoints were unavailable during this task. Source identification and locators were retained without claiming a full facsimile review.
Institutional catalogue for the primary compilation Sepulchretum sive anatomia practica ex cadaveribus morbo denatis. Identifies author, two volumes, Geneva and 1679. The observation numbers in the Oxford extract are those invoked by Morgagni; no unsupported claim is made to have independently verified every observation or the exact later edition he consulted.
Third edition, London, 1863. Page 67: twenty-patient ward dimensions give 1600 or 1560 cubic feet per bed. The exact scan identifier and edition are corroborated by its library catalogue.
Primary Greek and accompanying historical English text. Book II.3, treatment of cardiac affections: impending collapse, the rationale for selective depletion, and the assigned sequence of venesection, cupping, wine, poultices and enemas. Distinguish this work from the existing Causes and Signs of Chronic Diseases.
January 1863 review, pp. 644–650, of the 1862 Researches on the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes. The review records competing theories of hepatic sugar formation; these are evidence about period beliefs, not all modern conclusions.
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