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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    from inflammation alone. It is nevertheless rare that the slight degree of phlegmasy, suf- ficient for the formation of accidental mem- branes, is sufficiently intense to occasion the symptoms of pleurisy. This slight inflamma- tion of the pleura easily gets well when not kept up by any particular cause. This is not the case if the lung be already affected with granaiations or with tubercles, whatever be their nature and quantity. When this coinci- dence takes place, the inflammation of the pleura and the Phthisis have a reciprocal in- fluence, and the patient dies. On opening the body^ we find the pleura inflamed and the lung tuberculous. But we must not conclude from this that the pleurisy produced the tubercles ; it only accelerated the progress of those which had a tendency to grov/ soft and to suppurate. We likewise see chronic pleurisies of long duration without tubercles in the lungs ; [Obs, 4ï, 42, 44, 45) and meet with numberless tubercles in subjects where the pleurisy, though chronic, has not been of long duration. We may even affirm in general, that simple chronic pleurisy is commonly of very long duration ; and when it is complicated with tubercles, death, as we have already mentioned, is more