Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature : operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented.

  • Ramadge, Francis Hopkins, 1793-1867.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature : operates in effecting a healing process ... to which is added, a mode of treatment, by which the development of tubercles may be prevented. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards recovered, and on whose demise I have been called in to examine the body, that latent nodules, in the state described above, have existed upwards of thirty years. Again, in individuals in whom consump- tion has been arrested by the spontaneous occurrence of chronic catarrh, or by treatment adapted to render the disease chronic, similar nodules, similarly situated, together with wrinkled depressions on the exterior surface of the lungs, signs of internal cicatrices, are of no infrequent occurrence. Without intending to enter too far into the debateable ground of hypothesis, 1 yet feel induced to observe that I regard tubercular depo- sition as a specific vitiated secretion, arising from an aberration of nutrition. In confirmation of this opi- nion, I have strong grounds for believing that tuber- cles of very recent date, and not arrived at a state of crudity, undergo absorption, and that upon this, resto- ration from incipient phthisis soon follows. Thus I have indicated two modes by which recovery from phthisis occurs; the one is the re-absorption of tubercles in their early stage, and the other is their insulation, even in a state of crudity, by black pulmonary matter. I {now approach what I consider the most interesting portion of my subject connected with the morbid ana- tomy of phthisis, the mode of union, and cicatrization