90 CAUSES OF ACUTE ATROPHY. 



shown me by the late Dr. Edward Bascome, who was 

 at the time one of the leading physicians in that once 

 flourishing colony, and who, a few years afterwards, 

 succeeded me as medical superintendent to the Si; 

 House Asylum, under the proprietorship of the late 

 Dr. Forbes Winslow. 



6. Lastly, Dr. Budd has ventured to suggest that a 

 special poison engendered in the body itself by some 

 faulty digestion or assimilation may cause Acute 

 Atrophy of the Liver. It may be that the nervous in- 

 fluences already referred to may have some-thing : 

 in developing such a poison. 



IUA<;NMS-IH:AU.Y. Acut 



all times easy of recognition, as there are other di- 

 which, " Bymptomologicallj speaking." 

 semblances to that allection, and which mav, in the, 

 hands of an incaution r, be mi The 



most prominent of the.se are 



1. Typhus, (.-.implicated with jaundice. 



1'. I'.ilious ami remittent levers of various ki; 



3. r\;emia: and among the local d may be 



mentioned meiiin-ilis p:;< 



(a.) In contra-; .:ptnns 



Atrophy oft typhus may be i 



rose-coloured erupt ion, its bronchial catarrh, its diarrho-a, 

 and the wandering character of its delirium. 



(b.) Bilious and oth- ly their more or less dis- 



tinctly marked remittent t i ix-turns 



of rigors. 



(c.) Tya-'iuia by repeated shiverings, and the : 

 of the deposit of pus. 



Those local diseases referred to viz., inflammation 



