Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens, auctore Olao Jacobo Ekman, praeside Joh. Gust. Acrell, 4to, Upsaliae.

Date:
1790
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    menc was conftandy excreted with the urine ; and through the whole of this period fhe com- plained of an unufual fenfe of heat, which both night and day affe&ed the internal parts of her body. In her bed-chamber, while others complained of cold, fhe felt pleafant. Winter was always agreeable to her; and fhe was highly diflrefled by Summer weather. In the year 1778, to her other affettions, and to an increafe of the diftortions, was fuperadded a new difeafe of the kidneys, confifting in violent pain, attended with the difcharge of numerous calculi, her urine flill continuing to depofite the fame calcareous fediment as before. During this fourth year, alfo, fhe did not efcape her ufual fever; and although it fuffered a remillion in a few days, yet it did not entirely leave her. A diarrhoea fupervened, attended with aph- thae, which proved fatal to her. Various cir- cumftances prevented an examination of the body after death. Dr Ekman thinks, how- ever, there can be little doubt, that nothing farther would have been detected than was obferved by Dr Hunter on the difle<5fion of the patient affe&ed with remarkable foftnefs of the bones, whofe cafe is related by Mr Thomfon,