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HIROPRACTOR
mucous membranes. The chancre is an infective lesion. The
lesions peculiar to syphilis are the chancre, the mucous patch
and the gumma. The chancre is the primary lesion of acquired
syphilis. The chancre is an inflammatory lesion. The mucous
patch is the most contagious lesion of syphilis. These mucous
patch lesions in the second stage of the disease. The mucous
patch is the most contagious lesion of syphilis, and as it makes
its appearance about the genital organs, is probably that through
which the disease is most frequently transmitted. The gumma
is a characteristic lesion o f syphilis; it may appear as late as
tAventy to thirty years after infection. Syphilitic bone diseases
are common. Periostitis, ostitis and osteomyelitis occur. These
lesions have a selection for the upper third of the tibia, the
sternum and skull. They may become very destructive, espe
cially when affecting the septum nasi or the bones of the
cranium.
From the above on syphilis we learn that chancre is the
acquired original lesion— the cause of secondary lesions, the mu
cous patch. That lesions, the causes of other advanced syphi
litic conditions, may appear as late as 20 to 30 years. That a
lesion may be the cause of another lesion.
The most definite meaning and use o f the word lesion I have
found is on page 933 of Delafielcl and Prudden’s Pathology.
The item is not only valuable in explaining the meaning and
the use pathologists make of lesion, but also on post mortem
examinations. General considerations for the cause of death—
post mortem examinations.
“ The object in making a post-mortem examination may be to
determine whether a person has died from violence or poison
ing; to account for a sudden death; or to study the lesions of
disease. In any case the examination should include all the
important parts of the body, not merely a suspected organ, and
the results should be recorded at the time the examination is
made.
“ Great care is necessary in endeavoring to ascertain the cause
of death when the clinical history is imperfect or unknown.
Mechanical injuries which destroy life by abolishing the func
tion of one o f the important viscera are relatively infrequent.
Most of the lesions found after death are rather the marks of
disease than the cause of death. We do not know, for example,
how great a degree o f meningitis, or of pneumonia, or of endo
carditis, or of cirrhosis, or of nephritis necessarily leads to
death. On the contrary, one patient may recover with an extent
of lesion which is sufficient to destroy the life of another. So
with accidents; there is often no evident reason why fractures
of the skull or of the pelvis should destroy life, yet they usually
do. In some of the infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever,
the visible lesions cannot always be called the cause of death.
mucous membranes. The chancre is an infective lesion. The
lesions peculiar to syphilis are the chancre, the mucous patch
and the gumma. The chancre is the primary lesion of acquired
syphilis. The chancre is an inflammatory lesion. The mucous
patch is the most contagious lesion of syphilis. These mucous
patch lesions in the second stage of the disease. The mucous
patch is the most contagious lesion of syphilis, and as it makes
its appearance about the genital organs, is probably that through
which the disease is most frequently transmitted. The gumma
is a characteristic lesion o f syphilis; it may appear as late as
tAventy to thirty years after infection. Syphilitic bone diseases
are common. Periostitis, ostitis and osteomyelitis occur. These
lesions have a selection for the upper third of the tibia, the
sternum and skull. They may become very destructive, espe
cially when affecting the septum nasi or the bones of the
cranium.
From the above on syphilis we learn that chancre is the
acquired original lesion— the cause of secondary lesions, the mu
cous patch. That lesions, the causes of other advanced syphi
litic conditions, may appear as late as 20 to 30 years. That a
lesion may be the cause of another lesion.
The most definite meaning and use o f the word lesion I have
found is on page 933 of Delafielcl and Prudden’s Pathology.
The item is not only valuable in explaining the meaning and
the use pathologists make of lesion, but also on post mortem
examinations. General considerations for the cause of death—
post mortem examinations.
“ The object in making a post-mortem examination may be to
determine whether a person has died from violence or poison
ing; to account for a sudden death; or to study the lesions of
disease. In any case the examination should include all the
important parts of the body, not merely a suspected organ, and
the results should be recorded at the time the examination is
made.
“ Great care is necessary in endeavoring to ascertain the cause
of death when the clinical history is imperfect or unknown.
Mechanical injuries which destroy life by abolishing the func
tion of one o f the important viscera are relatively infrequent.
Most of the lesions found after death are rather the marks of
disease than the cause of death. We do not know, for example,
how great a degree o f meningitis, or of pneumonia, or of endo
carditis, or of cirrhosis, or of nephritis necessarily leads to
death. On the contrary, one patient may recover with an extent
of lesion which is sufficient to destroy the life of another. So
with accidents; there is often no evident reason why fractures
of the skull or of the pelvis should destroy life, yet they usually
do. In some of the infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever,
the visible lesions cannot always be called the cause of death.
