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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... present a practical exposition of phthisis , derived from personal observation . It is becoming too much the custom , in treating of medical subjects , to indulge in theoretical dis- cussion rather than in practical deduction ; and thus ...
... present a practical exposition of phthisis , derived from personal observation . It is becoming too much the custom , in treating of medical subjects , to indulge in theoretical dis- cussion rather than in practical deduction ; and thus ...
Page 6
... present themselves , in which , although the tubercle is as yet unsoft- ened , consumption is more marked , and life appa- rently more threatened , than in other cases , where the pulmonary structures are broken down into cavities . The ...
... present themselves , in which , although the tubercle is as yet unsoft- ened , consumption is more marked , and life appa- rently more threatened , than in other cases , where the pulmonary structures are broken down into cavities . The ...
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... presents the same general characters , the only difference being in the absence of the carbonaceous matter , and in the cellular arrangement . Sometimes , however , no difference is discoverable in the latter respect , C the cells being ...
... presents the same general characters , the only difference being in the absence of the carbonaceous matter , and in the cellular arrangement . Sometimes , however , no difference is discoverable in the latter respect , C the cells being ...
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... present every possible shade of departure from healthy substance , -in some cases , perhaps , closely approaching in its constituents the properly organized materials of health , but in others widely differing from them . It may be ...
... present every possible shade of departure from healthy substance , -in some cases , perhaps , closely approaching in its constituents the properly organized materials of health , but in others widely differing from them . It may be ...
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... present , ready to develope , under any exciting cause , its fatal properties . The phthisis of children , although in many cases severe and rapidly fatal , is , upon the whole , more frequently recovered from than that of the adult ...
... present , ready to develope , under any exciting cause , its fatal properties . The phthisis of children , although in many cases severe and rapidly fatal , is , upon the whole , more frequently recovered from than that of the adult ...
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acute amongst appearance attack attended become blood bronchial bronchitis cause cavities character chest chronic Chronic Laryngitis circumstances clavicle climate cloth cod-liver oil commencement condition conium consequence consumptive persons cough diagnosis diarrhoea diathesis diet Disease arrested dyspepsia dyspnoea early effect emphysema evidence expectoration fatal favourable Fcap females fever Foolscap 8vo Foreign Medical Review frequently Gazette hæmoptysis hereditary HOSPITAL hydrocyanic acid Illustrated improved increase inflammation inflammatory influence instances iodine irritable Journal laryngeal less liable liniments lungs malady matter medicine ment mental morbid mucous membrane nature observed occasionally organs pain particular patient peculiar perhaps period perspirations physical physician pleurisy pneumonia Post 8vo practical practitioner predisposing present production pulse quinine racter remarkable remedies rhonchi scarcely scrofulous Second Edition secretion seen seldom severe sometimes stage of phthisis sumption SURGERY symp symptoms syphilis tendency thoracic tion treatise treatment tubercle tubercular deposit tubercular disease variety whilst