Description | Lectures of Professor Ashley Mackintosh recorded by John Craig on the subject of the Practice of Medicine (Volume 1), Winter Session, 1919-1920.
Lecture 1: Classes of disease. Introduction to infectious disease and diagnosis of disease. Lecture 2: Prognosis and treatment of disease as well as infectious diseases. Lecture 3: Pyrexia; causes and affect on body muscle and skin Lecture 4: Pyrexia cont; Affects on heart and circulation, respiration, alimentary system, kidneys and nervous system. Dangers of death in pyrexia. Management of fever. Lecture 5: Treatment of fever. Stages of infectrious disease. Typhoid fever. [Lectures no longer numbered from this point on] Lecture (Given by J.Falconer): Diseases of the heart; heart failure, symptoms, functions of heart muscle. Lecture: Typhoid fever cont. Modes of infection, pathology, prognosis and complications of Typhoid. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Complications of typhoid cont. Abdomen, peritonitis, cholectystitis, venous thrombosis, respitory, renal, delerium and local inflamations. Diagnosis, widal test. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Differential diagnosis; pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, TB, appendicitis, cholecystitis, influenza, scarlet fever, typhus fever, paratyphoid fever. Prognosis, treatment and diet. Conditions requiring treatment; temprature, diarrhoea, constipation, haemorrage, abdominal perforation, nerve features, sleeplessness and headache. Vaccine therapy. Convalesence and rehabilitation. Carriers and vaccination. Lecture: "Functions of Heart Muscle and their Diseases". Indicators of heart failure and blocks. Complete heart block. Prognosis. Factors causing dilation. Recognising dilation. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Affect of dilation on lungs. Prognosis of dilation. Acute myocarditis and infection. Indentifying acute myocarditis. Chronic myocarditis. Pericarditis; etiology and symptoms.Dry pericarditis; complaints and symptoms. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Diagnosis, course and treatment of dry pericarditis. Pericardial effusion; symptoms, physical signs, palpation, percussion, auscultation, course, prognosis, fluid, diagnosis and treatment. Lecture: Adherent Pericarditis. Internal/external pericarditis. Symptoms, physical signs, infection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, prognosis, treatment. Hydro-pericarditis. Haemo-pericarditis. Pneumo-pericarditis. Endocarditis; acute and chronic, cause, signs and symptoms, prognosis, treatment. Malignant endocarditis; signs and symptoms. Chronic Endocarditis. Mitral incompetence. Mitral Stenosis. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Diagnosis of mitral stenosis cont. Aortic valve. Aortic incompetence. Lecture[cont from previous lecture]: Aortic stenosis. Lesions of tricuspid. Tricuspid stenosis. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Tricuspid stenosis cont. Heart lesions. Treament of heart failure. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Signs of heart weakness. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Signs of heart weakness cont. Dyspnoea, coughing, haemophysis and exercise. Lecture: Angina pectoris. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]; prognosis and treatment of angina prectoris. "Disorders of the Blood". Secondary diseases. Lecture 27: Primary diseases. Pernicious anemia. Splenic anemia. Congenital familial cholaemia. Enterogenous cyanosis. Haemophilia Lymphatic leucocythemia. Lecture: Purpura. Lymphodeoma. Lecture: Arteriosclerosis. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Arteriosclerosis. Aneurysm of aorta. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Aneurysm [aneurism] of aorta. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Aneurysm of aorta. Lecture: "Diseases of Digestive System". Acute gastritis. Gastric and duodenal ulcers. Lecture: Acute and chronic ulcers. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Treatment of ulcers. Carcinoma of Stomach. Lecture[cont. from previous lecture]: Stomach carcinoma. Lecture: Hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. Gastrostasis. Lecture: Gastroptosis. Haemorrage within Stomach. Hyperchlorydia. Gastrorrhoea. Nervous vomiting. Bulimia. Anorexia Nervosa. Lecture: Pancreatic tests. Acute Pancreatitis. [There follows several blank pages before the notes continue.] Glycosuria; Diabetes Mellitus; Obstructive Jaundice; _ Jaundices; Diseases of the liver. Lecture: Heart diseases [possibly delivered by J. Falconer]. |