An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption.

  • Delafield, Edward, 1794-1875.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ation of which this essay will be more immediately con- fined, may be also subdivided into, 1. Primary, where the lungs are the original seat of the disease, and as a consequence, the general system becomes affected. 2. Secondary, where the system being first reduced by any debilitating cause, the lungs become secondarily affected, as a symptom of the general disease. These two forms of Consumption, although somewhat similar in their symptoms, yet proceed from opposite causes, and require opposite treatment. The one is a dis- ease of pure inflammation; the other of unmixed debility. In the one, an active antiphlogistic treatment is necessary; in the other, the system requires all the support, which tonics and good nourishment can afford. Phthisis Pulmonalis is thus defined by Dr. Cullen, Corporis emaciatio et debilitas, cum tussi, febre hectica, et expectoratione purulenta This definition is peculiary in- correct, because it leads us to neglect, the first stage of the disease; if the symptoms of an Incipient Phthisis were stated to us, and we were asked, what was the dis- ease, from this definition we would be perfectly at a loss for an answer. Except the cough, none of the symptoms there stated are to be found in the first stage of Consump- tion. And yet that is as truly a part of it, and of as much importance to the practitioner, as the last stage, which alone is included inCullen's definition.0 c The following-judicious remarls on this subject are marie by Bayle, in his 11 Rechercb.es «ur la Phthisie Pulmonaire, d'aprcs la notion que j'ai donntc de la