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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    First, we cannot be surprised, when pregnancy takes place in an advanced stage of the disease, at not meet- ing with the usual effects; and a second reason that may lie assigned for death following, what might other- wise he regarded as a case of cured consumption, may he found in the ahsence of chronic catarrh ; or in ill health, after cicatrization has taken place, causing a fresh growth of tubercles. Having thus purposely di- gressed, in order to explain my views of the sanatory influence of pregnancy, I hasten to the conclusion of the present case. Since she first became my patient she has had four children, now alive; and, with the exception of a discharge of blood and muco-purulent matter, that continued for a week about three years ago, possibly expectorated from some imperfectly- healed cavity of long date, she has had no recurrence of her former formidable complaint. During the last year she was free from any cough; and, with the ex- ception of a slight catarrh, which is now attended with an abundant pituitous discharge, she is in the enjoy- ment of better health than she has been in for the last eight years. At present, I consider her as perfectly secured against a relapse into her former state, for two reasons—the partial cicatrization which evidently took place during pregnancy, and the existence of emphy-