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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    In this table I have referred to the same species the particular cases in which this species was simple, and those where it was pre- dominant. It appears that the ulcerous Phthisis, which has been for a long time regarded as the most common, is in reality very rare. As to the frequency of Phthisis, it may be said that it is truly frightful. I will place here the extract of the number of consumptions that w^ere found amongst the 696 individuals who died in two wards in the Hospital of the Charité, in the space of three years:— First year,—From 52d March, 1803, to the 21st March, 1804, inclusively, out of 300 deaths, 99 were phthisical. Second year,—From 23d September, I804, to the 22d September, 1805, inclusively, out of 228 deaths, 73 were phthisical. Third year,—From 1st January to the 31st December, I806, out of 168 individuals dead in the two wards, 72 were phthisical.