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Title: Texas medical journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Austin, Tex. : Mrs. F. E. Daniel
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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A rational method for treating locally allforms of disease in which inflammationand congestion play a part. The Denver Chemical Mfg. Co., New Vork 78 TEXAS MEDICAL JOURNAL. ulcer of the appendix referred to is seldom, if ever, attended byinflammation, and, therefore, may perforate nnrestrained by con-tiguous peritonitis, a feature so conspicuous in the case of theperforating ulcer of the bladder described above. Should the ulcerbe situated near the base of the appendix, definite symptoms mayexist that will direct attention to disease which may exist at thispoint. Mr. Tait did not venture upon an explanation of the pathologi-cal cause of these perforating ulcers of the bladder; he simplystated that he endorsed the views of Rokitansky which, unfortu-nately, he omitted to give in his article. The explanation putforward by Dr. Walker is a generalization too narrow to enlightenus as to the real cause of this malady. He says it is due probablyto local disturbance in, or complete blocking of

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