DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Forms of Bright's Disease. (Tabulated from Da Costa, and Hoffmann & Ultzmann.) 773 NOTE.-The signs + and respectively denote a specific gravity greater than 1,024, or less than 1,018. Recovery Recovery able, but on con course Always stitutional perhaps long. Becomes fixed to adjoining structures, Spreads through loose textures, which which it puckers. Single and grows slowly. Course slow-2-4 years. Never in the young. it pushes aside and distends. Has numerous tumors, grows rapidly. Generally fatal in 1-2 years. Often in the young, even at birth. Premonitory hoarse, metallic cough, Promonitory illness, shivers, fevers, without illness. A child's disease. sore throat, without cough. Attacks adults as well. Tenacious mucus, covers the swollen Distinguished by a false membrane. membrane. A local disease. A blood poison; great general depres sion. Chiefly affects small joints, especially the metatarsal joint of the great toe. From 35-50 years; rarely before puberty. Most frequent in men, and result of idle, intemperate and luxurious life. Is strongly hereditary. Chalk stones (urate of soda) in ext. ear, on tops of fingers, or elsewhere. Rheumatism. Affects both sexes equally, and Uric acid in the blood, absent from Lactic acid in the blood. If from the stomach, the blood is of a If from the lungs, it is bright red, and dark color, and is vomited. Often mixed with food, not froth. Preceded by nausea and stomach distress, and blood is passed with the stools. generally coughed up. Generally frothy, mixed with sputa. Preceded by pain in the chest and dyspnoea. No blood in the stools, |