Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French [tr.] by Wm. Barrow.

  • Bayle, Gaspard Laurent, 1774-1816.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French [tr.] by Wm. Barrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shrunk to a very small size, makes one believe that the lung has been almost entirely de- stroyed, and changed into a sort of putrefaction. (Obs. 40, 41.J If however a careful examination be made, it is found entire under the acci- dental membrane w^hich conceals it, and free from ulceration : the opposite lung is quite sound. But as pleurisy is sometimes compli- cated with Phthisis, w^e End in such compli- cated cases tubercles and ulceration in the compressed lung, and even commonly also in the lung of the opposite side. Nor ought w^e to confound with suppuration of the internal structure of the lungs certain cases wherein chronic pleurisy has frequently occurred. In the cases in question, the conti- guous surfaces of both lobes of the lungs are inflamed, and, covered with an accidental thick and very dense membrane, they contract at their edges a very close adhesion, which seems perfectly to unite them into one lobe. There takes place in the middle of the space between these two adjacent accidental membranes an effusion of an albuminous purulent or puriform fluid, sometimes to the amount of many ounces. A superficial examination of this species of