Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie.

Date:
1828
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera : and on the pathology of mucous membranes / by Alex. Turnbull Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    14/142 (page 10)
    in a few cases of common catarrh, in diar- rhoea, and also (as 1 shall have occasion to shew in a future part of this Essay) in Indian Cho- lera. Acute bronchitis frequently affords an ex- cellent example of simple inflammation of a mucous membrane, without increased secre- tion. In some cases of it, the secretions dur- ing the first stage are diminished ; and then, an increased secretion from the inflamed mem- brane always relieves the disease.* In the first stage of gastritis, and of enteritis, the secretions of the gastro-enteric mucous mem- brane are generally diminished; and these diseases also are relieved by an increased flow of the natural secretions of the membranes. These examples sufliciently prove, that in- flammation may occur alone in a mucous membrane, without being accompanied by increased secretion. There are also numerous examples of ca- * Vide Hastings’ Treatise on Inflammation of the Mu cous Membrane of the Lungs, p. 161.