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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    indispensable, in order that afFectlons of the lungs in phthisical persons might no more be confounded with those that are observed in other diseases of the chest, which sometimes resemble Phthisis. The errors which have occurred in this respect do not appear surprising on read- ing most treatises on this disease. The symp- toms of Phthisis, and its predispositions, are generally well laid down in authors, of whom, however, few have opened a sufficient num- ber of bodies, nor are they sufficiently conver- sant with the differences which the state of the lungs presents, in the numerous diseases of the chest. This knowledge alone would secure them from error. In truth, they have con- founded almost constantly with Phthisis the pnlmonary chronic catarrh^ when it occasions death either by exhaustion or by its compli- cation with acute or chronic peripneumony. But pulmonary catarrh differs essentially from Phthisis, inasmuch as it does not disorganize the lungs ; it is a disease which only affects the mucous membrane of this organ, ( Obs. 48 ^ A9) and does not tend to destroy its parenchyme like Phthisis. Though, by its symptoms, the chronic pulmonary catarrh comes near to Phthisis, particularly when it is accompanied