A Practical treatise on the diseases of the lungsWalton & Maberly, 1860 - 613 pages |
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abscess actually acute affected side amount amphoric anatomical apex appear artery audible auscultation blood breathing Bright's disease bronchi bronchial tubes bronchophony bubbling cancer cause cavity character chest chronic circumstances cirrhosis clavicle clinical commonly congestion costal cough death diagnosis dilatation disease distension dulness duration dyspnoea emphysema empyema especially excavation exist expectoration expiration exudation exudation-matter favourable Females fluid frequently friction-sound gangrene glands Grisolle hæmoptysis hæmorrhage heart hepatisation increase infiltration inflammation influence inspiration intensity intercostal Laennec laryngeal latter less lung lung-substance Males marked membrane morbid natural observed obstruction occasionally occurs organ pain parenchyma patient peculiar percussion percussion-sound perforation phthisis physical signs pitch pleura pleurisy pleuritic effusion pneumonia pneumothorax pressure produced pulmonary purulent quantity rare instances regions respiration respiratory respiratory sounds rhonchus ribs seen slight sometimes sound sputa stage stethoscope surface symptoms thorax tion tissue trachea tubercle tuberculisation tubular tumor tympanitic varies variety vocal resonance
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Page 513 - (1.) That it more rapidly and effectually induces improvement in the general and local symptoms than any other known agent. (2.) That its power of curing the disease is undetermined ;—I mean here, by " curing " the disease, its power of causing, along with suspension of progress, such change
Page 515 - lung is implicated to an advanced degree, than where a relatively large area is diseased in an incipient stage. (16.) That when chronic pleurisy or chronic pneumonia exists on a large scale, the oil often fails to relieve the pectoral symptoms. (17.) That it often disagrees, when the liver is enlarged, and
Page 514 - in the ileum, affords no contra-indication to the use of the oil ; even the profuse diarrhoea caused by extensive ulcération of the large bowel is not made worse by it. (14.) That the beneficial operation of the oil diminishes,
Page 231 - taken in conjunction with the indubitable tendency of syphilis plus mercury to induce the outbreak of phthisis in a person having the requisite constitutional aptitude. How are the cases to be distinguished ? By the total want of accordance between the physical signs and the constitutional symptoms ; the patient with syphilitic bronchitis has neither
Page 508 - If a young adult, free from secondary syphilis and spermatorrhoea, and not dissolute in his habits, steadily lose weight, without clear cause, he is in all probability phthisical, even though no subjective chest-symptoms exist, (s) But he is not by any means certainly so ; for he may have latent cancer in some
Page 514 - peculiarities of youth and age are better understood, aid in giving a clue to its mode of action. (15.) That the effects of the oil are more strikingly beneficial, when a small extent of
Page 515 - That when chronic pleurisy or chronic pneumonia exists on a large scale, the oil often fails to relieve the pectoral symptoms. (17.) That it often disagrees, when the liver is enlarged, and probably fatty. (18.) That weight may be increased by it,
Page 435 - these gummata ever form independently of other tertiary evidences of syphilis in the bones and cellular tissue ? If they do, their diagnosis must be infinitely difficult,—difficult indeed under all circumstances ; for the physical signs can be none other than those of solidification followed by softening and excavation, while the local and general symptoms closely simulate those of phthisis.
Page 507 - of the pleura. I would even go further, and say that the combination in question is rather hostile than otherwise to the admission of phthisis ; as, had tuberculous excavation formed at one side, the other lung would, in infinite probability, have been affected
Page 125 - If individuals, whose lungs are healthy, or diseased only at the apices, and whose breathing is habitually calm, are made suddenly to respire deeply, a peculiar, fine, dry crepitation, accompanying inspiration only, may often be detected at the bases posteriorly. But after two or three, or at most five or six, acts of respiration, it