A concise and practical treatise on the principal diseases of the air-passages, lungs, and pleura / by Alfred Catherwood.

  • Catherwood Alfred.
Date:
1841
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    diseases of these organs must be treated according to the nature of the affection. 4. Diseases of the Liver and Spleen. — CEdema of the lungs resulting from disease of the liver or spleen can only be removed by curing the pri- mary affection. Chronic enlargement of the latter organ following an attack of ague, requires the employment of mercury. The iodide of the metal is to be preferred. It should be given in the form of pill night and morning, the dose to begin With. ought not to exceed two grains: it may be re- peated twice or thrice in the twenty-four hours. 5. Compression of large Venous TrunTcs. — When oedema of the lungs is caused by tumours pressing on large venous trunks, the disease is, of course, perfectly incurable, unless it be practicable to remove these impediments to the free circula- tion of the blood. 6. InJiammatio7i of the Cellular Membrane. — The treatment here is obvious. The inflammation must be reduced by antiphlogistic measures before the slightest hope can be entertained that the effused fluid will be absorbed. The abstraction of blood is therefore indicated ; and I should advise it to be taken away in the mode recommended by Dr. Marshall Hall.* Digitalis is also a most valu- able remedy in cases of this description ; it is powerfully antiphlogistic, and will materially pro-. * See Chapter on Peripneumony.