The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    be forgotten. Bad ventilation and its con- sequences—the breathing of hot, close, foul air, and the increased liability to catch cold after working in such an atmosphere—are frequent causes of the disease. Next come the con- strained position in which these men have to work for hours ; sitting upon what they are pleased to term their horsing (a low narrow bench) : the elbows rest upon the knees ; and, especially when grinding very small articles, the head is kept over the stone. The position is most injurious, and, when long continued, cannot but induce pulmonary congestion. “ After working some years at dry grinding, without the protection of a fan, the digestive functions become impaired ; there is difficulty of breathing after the slightest exertion, and more or less inability to walk up the steps leading to the hull. The face is pale and pasty-looking; there is a feeling of constriction across the chest, and a dry sensation at the back of the throat. To these symptoms succeed coughing; at first dry, then with frothy expecto- ration, indicative of irritation. The physical signs of the Sheffield grinders’ disease, are in some patients those of bronchitis and dilated