A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D.

  • M'Dowell, William A. (William Adair), 1795-1853.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the brain, in _ Two. In the ureter, in - One. 32. Laennec, Andra], Lombard, and various other pathologists, furnish accounts of tubercles in the bones, muscles, spinal chord, pancreas, cartilages, &c. 33. In children, says Andral, tubercles, with respect to their situation, differ from those of the adult, in the following circumstances: 1st. Tubercles occur in the other organs without any being in the lungs; more frequently in children than in adults. 2d. They have also a tendency to affect a greater number of organs at once. 3d. The organs which are most frequently affected in adults, are not those which are so in children. 34. In one hundred young subjects M. Lombard found tubercles. In the lungs, . - - - - in 73 In the bronchial glands, 87 In the mesenteric glands, - - - 31 In the spleen, 25 In the kidneys, 11 In the intestines, ----- 9 In the nervous centres, - 9 In the cervical glands, - 7 In the membranes of the brain, 6 In the pancreas, ----- 5 In the gastro-hepatic glands, - - - 5 In the sub-peritoneal cellular tissue, - 5 In the spleen, 4 In the inguinal glands, - 3 In the cellular tissue under the pleura, - 2 In the lumbar glands, - 1