Consumption curable, a practical treatise to prove consumption a manageable disease : with cases successfully treated, under a new mode in this country / by J.S. Rose.

  • Rose, J. S. (Jacob Servoss), 1797?-1865.
Date:
1841
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    among us, in the present enlightened state of our science, unacquainted with the importance of the bold and repeated use of the lancet, in the continued form of fever which accompanies pneumonia, or pleurisy. The time to lay down the lancet, will be when the patient ceases to complain of pain, or oppression, and can lay on either side with ease. If, however, from timidity, or any other cause, bloodletting should not have been timely and freely used, the disease goes on unmolested, and soon arrives at that point surgeons have designated the third stage of inflammation, suppuration and abscess.) The fever now assumes another form from continued; it intermits, and soon puts on the hectic character. The abscess bursts, expectoration of blood and matter follow, and the patient is said to be in consumption. The same results from the ripening, softening, and bursting of tubercles. The constitution in which tubercles are most frequently met with is marked by a scrofulous idiosyncracy. The blood gives ofT its carbon sparingly, in consequence of the delicate tissue, lining the air cells, being loaded with a tenacious mucus; thereby preventing the free transmission of the gases. Oxygen and nitrogen inward, and carbonic acid outward. The blood in this case