Phthisis and the stethoscope : a concise practical guide to the physical diagnosis of consumption / by Richard Payne Cotton.

  • Cotton, Richard Payne, 1820-1877.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Phthisis and the stethoscope : a concise practical guide to the physical diagnosis of consumption / by Richard Payne Cotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gated, and even when they are, not until the disease is in an advanced stage. In five hundred oases, I have met with but four instances of the lower parts being alone affected, and only once with a tubercular cavity in the inferior lobe. They appear at first equally disposed either to occupy but one side, or to occur in one to a much greater amount than in the other. In a hundred cases of the first stage, they were found on the right side only, twenty-seven times ; on the left side only, fifty-one times; and on both sides, twenty-two times. Situation of Tubercle in 100 Cases of Early Phthisis. Right Apex. Left Apex. Both Apices. Equally. Unequally. 27 51 8 14 To form a fair statement, however, of the numerical preponderance of one side over the other, either a much larger number of cases mast be taken, or care must be had, that each one of them is in precisely the same period of the particular stage. I think, we can only infer from 5