Catarrhal fevers : commonly called colds their causes, consequences, control, and cure / R. Prosser White.

  • White, R. Prosser (Robert Prosser), 1855-1934.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catarrhal fevers : commonly called colds their causes, consequences, control, and cure / R. Prosser White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    falling in drifts through the wide-open windows of our sanatoriums can produce it. Again, what do we find is the usual first evidence of consumption of the lungs? The unilateral jerky breathing over the apices, a rough vesicular respiration in the same situations, with prolonged expiration. All are signs showing a catarrhal condition of the smaller bronchi at the apices. We have all seen these symp- toms begin from a cold and disappear under careful treatment, but seem to take it for granted that they will return, and from what cause ? Not the unaided growth of the tubercular organism, but solely from the contraction of a fresh infection of catarrhal cold which lights up the old, nearly cured, slumbering tubercles, and allows the introduction of secondary infection; consequences preventable, could we but interpret aright “ experience ”—the experimentum crucis. We know that a catarrhal condition of the bronchial tubes and lungs forms a ready nidus for tubercle and septic germs; but whether these two latter can begin in the lungs and thrive without the former is un- known. SANATORIUM TREATMENT. The value of the sanatorium treatment depends mainly upon the minimum risk and infrequent occurrence of catarrhal fever. It cannot be claimed that excessive alimentation and the deposition of fat in the tissues are any hindrance to the growth of the Bacillus tuberculosis, or that rest and the avoidance of fatigue can inhibit its growth. The great worth of