Two lectures on phthisis / by E. Symes Thompson.

  • Symes-Thompson, Edmund, 1837-1906.
Date:
1863
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    LECTUEE I. Effects of medicines in modifying the condition of the blood— Emaciation a compensating process—Inunction of neat's-foot oil —Cocoa-nut oil—Analysis of oils—Varieties of tubercle—Nature of the tubei'cle corpuscle—Hurried action checked by digitalis and ozone—Venous hum. To obtain a satisfactory insight into the nature of consumption, we must not regard it simply as a lung disease, nor merely as a blood disorder. We must consider it as an error in the organism, exhibiting itself generally in defective blood and imperfect, hur- ried action, locally in faulty cell formation. In the present day, there is perhaps too great a tendency to trace all diseases to a depraved condition of the blood, whereas oftentimes modifications, more or less appreciable, in the tissues themselves, occur previous to this deterioration. Attention has been directed, of late, both in Eng- land and abroad, to the blood changes that occur in phthisis, an attention even yet inadequate to the essential importance of the subject. In the first place, it is not easy to carry out analy- tical investigations on a large scale, and until the suggestion made in these lectures {vide page 85)* is * This and other references relate to the pages in the Lectures. to which this pamphlet was first published as an appendix.