The Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment of Consumption: Being the Essay to which was Awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London |
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... matter is to diabetes , and lithate of soda to gout . But it is not only at the beginning of consump- tion that this distinction is obvious and imperative ; for , during the whole course of the disease , phthisis and tubercle still hold ...
... matter is to diabetes , and lithate of soda to gout . But it is not only at the beginning of consump- tion that this distinction is obvious and imperative ; for , during the whole course of the disease , phthisis and tubercle still hold ...
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... matter is formed in two ways : a gradual and uninflammatory process of separa- tion from the blood ; ( 2 ) by inflammatory action , ending in a morbid scrofulous secretion , instead of a healthy or fibrinous one . The first of these is ...
... matter is formed in two ways : a gradual and uninflammatory process of separa- tion from the blood ; ( 2 ) by inflammatory action , ending in a morbid scrofulous secretion , instead of a healthy or fibrinous one . The first of these is ...
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... matter owes its origin either to the simple absorption of the animal matter which had existed in the tubercle , and the continuance of its earthy constituents ( in which case the resulting chalky mass bears a very small proportion to ...
... matter owes its origin either to the simple absorption of the animal matter which had existed in the tubercle , and the continuance of its earthy constituents ( in which case the resulting chalky mass bears a very small proportion to ...
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... matter , have constituted all the specimens I have examined ; but it is very probable that their chemical characters are not always the same . In the case of tubercular matter originating in an inflammatory attack , its course is ...
... matter , have constituted all the specimens I have examined ; but it is very probable that their chemical characters are not always the same . In the case of tubercular matter originating in an inflammatory attack , its course is ...
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... matter , identical with the ordinary car- bonaceous substance so common in the lungs . I have never observed pulmonary tubercle wanting in these materials , though I have examined it from a vast number of very different cases ; but they ...
... matter , identical with the ordinary car- bonaceous substance so common in the lungs . I have never observed pulmonary tubercle wanting in these materials , though I have examined it from a vast number of very different cases ; but they ...
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