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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    mh COMPLICATION OF PHTHISIS WITH DIFFERENT DISEASES— EFFECT OF THESE COMPLICATIONS—ERRORS TO WHICH THEY HAVE GIVEN RISE. In the first chapter we insisted on the essential characters of Phthisis, because, if we lose sight of it, we might be tempted to regard the pe- riods by which it commences as if they did not belong to this disease, and should often take for causes of Phthisis different affections which are only complicated with this disease, and do not produce it. Let us examine how these different complications have deceived ob- servers, and how we may avoid the same mis- takes. In order to effect this, it is necessary to mark with care these complications, and shew how they have produced the delusion.