Identifier: journalofmedical1719medi (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Medical Society of New Jersey Medical Society of New Jersey. Transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey Medical Society of New Jersey. Official list of fellows and members Medical Society of New Jersey. Annual report
Subjects: Medicine Socieites, Medical Tuberculosis
Publisher: Lawrenceville, N.J. (etc.) : Medical Society of New Jersey
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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ecorded facts rela-tive to the disease which bears his name.Appendicitis and duodenal ulcer had oc-curred for centuries before McBurneyand Moynihan described their symptomsand surgical treatment. In the same way,the disease which Raynaud described hadbeen observed many years before. Mon-ro narrates that Lachmond (1676) haspreserved for us a narrative of a curiouscase met with by Bernhard Schraderwhen the latter, as a student of surgery,was travelling in 1629 with his brothelJohn and a companion named AlexanderLax. The three put up at an inn in aplace called Geest, and there they foundthat the daughter of their host, a girl oftwenty-three, suffered every month fromconsiderable pain in her fingers and toes June, 1920. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. 183 and in the tips of her ears and nose. Hertius, of Nassau (1685), tells of aThere was also an edematous swelling woman of that town, aged twenty-six,of the hands, feet and face, whereupon who, after being long tormented with
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AUGUSTE MAURICE RAYNAUD, M. D.,Paris, France Born July 5, 1834. Died June 9, 1881 there followed, shortly before and afterfull moon, mortification of the parts, sothat the end£ of these, having becomewhite and dry. dropped off in little pieces,without feeling, pain, moisture or badodour. That which survived of the affect-ed parts retained its natural form andappearance. And when Schrader madefurther inquiries, the father showed hima box in which were stowed away a hun-dred or more pieces of dead tissue thathad fallen off in the course of three years. heat and pain in her hands and feet, triedto ease her suffering by plunging theminto very cold water. The consequencewas that gangrene supervened, and shelost portions of all her toes and of manyof her fingers. It is probable that other isolated caseshave been recorded in the medical litera-ture of former centuries, but no attemptwas made to explain the cause of suchconditions and they were looked upon as 184 Journal of the Medical Socie

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