"Bright's disease" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confined under cover. My liver give all out, my appetite failed me, an' I wa'n't wuth a day's wages. I'd learned engineerin' when I was a boy, an' I thought I'd try runnin' on the road a spell, but it did n't suit my constitution. My kidneys ain't turrible strong, an' the doctors said I'd have Bright's disease if I did n't git some kind o' work where there ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Mackins, the coxswain of the Walmer lifeboat, was also seized by pneumonia after a splendid service across the Goodwins, when his lifeboat was buried thirty times in raging seas; S. Pearson, once coxswain of the Walmer lifeboat, died of Bright's disease, the result of exposure; and on the occasion of the rescue of the Ganges, one of the crew, R. Betts, had his little finger torn off. The Lifeboat Institution gave him a generous donation. But the rescues by the Deal lifeboatmen ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor
... pains in my back and head. I went to the doctor and he told me I had a touch of Bright's disease and gave me some medicine but it did me no good. My mother advised me to take some of your medicine, and after taking eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I can say that ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
... interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learned that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... for example, to increased pressure on the acoustic nerve endings from causes in the labyrinth itself or in the middle or external ear; or they may be due to certain reflex causes, such as naso-pharyngeal catarrh or gastric irritation. Vascular changes such as occur in anaemia, Bright's disease, and heart disease may also be concerned ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... disease in the general etiology of mental disease is made by Ballet.[12] Ballet states that Griesinger's opinion that renal disease had little importance in the etiology of mental disease and that no one would count the cerebral symptoms of Bright's disease as mental is no longer held. Ballet enumerates a number of works upon so-called folie brightique which tend to prove that acute or chronic Bright's disease gives rise either to melancholic disorder ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... also very careful as to being sure of the absence of certain forms of organic disease before flattering myself with the probability of success. But not all organic troubles forbid the use of this treatment. Advanced Bright's disease does, though the early stages of contracted kidney are decidedly benefited by it, if proper diet be prescribed; but intestinal troubles which are not tubercular or malignant do not; nor do moderate signs of chronic pulmonary ...
— Fat and Blood - An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria • S. Weir Mitchell |
