Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French [tr.] by Wm. Barrow.

  • Bayle, Gaspard Laurent, 1774-1816.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French [tr.] by Wm. Barrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some subjects a very copious expectoration occurs, which appears altogether purulent. (Obs. 48.J When these get better, one is in- duced to believe they have expelled a vomica, or have been cured of a true Phthisis.— There are some of them who die, and one is astonished to find the lung sound. (Obs. 48.^ There is no other alteration than a choakino- up of the mucous membrane of the air pas- sages, Avhich is rather thickened and very red, and which, when it is compressed, transudes a puriform mucous matter. Many physicians who have attended, or w^ho do attend the patients at the Hospital la Charité, have fre- quently witnessed this fact. This state of the lung had been often noticed before, and de Haen relied on similar examples when he maintained that the pus is formed in the blood. But if a great part of the sick, who retain a pulmonary irritation at the end of eruptive diseases, have the lung uninjured, and though almost all get well, yet there are others whom nothing can relieve, and who become consump- tive at the end of the eruptive fever. Of these latter, some die at the end of many months in the last degree of marasmus ; and this Phthisis is supposed to have resulted from the eruptive