Researches on the nature, pathology, and treatment of emphysema of the lungs, and its relations with other diseases of the chest / by A.T.H. Waters.

  • Waters, A. T. Houghton (Alderman Thomas Houghton), 1826-1912.
Date:
1862
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    The diet should be carefully attended to ; it should be of a digestible and nutritious character, and regu- lai'ly administered. The bowels should be kept free from all accumulation ; for this has a tendency to distress the breathing, and embarrass the action of the heart. A purgative, mercurial or otherwise, may be given in the first instance; but, for the most part, enemata should be used, in preference to aperients given by the mouth. As illustrating the principles which I have endea- voured to lay down in the preceding remarks, for the treatment of acute bronchitis occurring in emphy- sematous patients, I shall quote the following cases, which I have selected from my hospital note-book, as being well-marked instances of their kind. Both the patients referred to, at one time, had symptoms of so severe a character, that death ap- peared imminent; both were treated with similar remedies, and both made a satisfactory recovery. They were carefully watched by the students, the house surgeons, and myself, and notes of their pro- gress were taken from day to day. Although these notes are somewhat lengthy, I prefer to give them without any alteration, and with all the circum- stances of detail which were drawn up at the time. Mary J., aged 20, single, was admitted into the Liverpool Northern Hospital on April 22nd, 1862. She said she had suffered for some time, but only to a slight extent, from cough and shortness of breath; she had never been laid up till about a week