A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life : with an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis / by George E. Day.

  • Day, George Edward, 1815-1872.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life : with an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis / by George E. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROGNOSIS IN BRONCHORRHCEA. undeceive him. And so he goes on from year to year. The disease is too often structural and incurable; and well it is for the sufferer if it only remains stationary. When it is connected with gout or suppression of the secretions, we not very unfre- quently have an alternation of disease ; a paroxysm ol gout, or an increased discharge of urine or sweat, will often wonderfully relieve the pulmonary affec- tion. In establishing our prognosis we must be guided by the following points:— 1. The age of the patient: the older he is, the less able will he be to cope with the disease. 2. The length of his illness. 3. Whether he has been in the habit of suffering from catarrhal affections, this being an unfavourable symptom. 4. The character of the expectoration. If it con- tinues to increase in quantity, assumes a purulent appearance, and evolves a foetid odour, we are led to augur badly for our patient. 5. We must be guided by the general symptoms,— the state of the respiration, the mode in which the cutaneous and urinary functions are discharged, and the presence or absence of emaciation and fever. Concomitant disease of the heart, or dropsy, greatly increases the danger. The leading indications with regard to the treatment of this disease are, first, to remove, if possible, the exciting cause; and, secondly, to give