A practical treatise on the principal diseases of the lungs, considered especially in relation to the particular tissues affected, illustrating the different kinds of cough / by G. Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
1837
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    are grouped, forms the specific character of the disease.* But to return to the lungs — if we examine the ultimate tissues that compose the structure of the internal organs of respiration, we shall find them consisting of the mucous, cellular, serous, vascular, cartilaginous, muscular, lympha- tic, and nervous, each of which have characters attached to them, when the seat of disease, that widely distinguish them from each other. Now, although among tissues so closely in contact with one another as many of these are, it rarely or never happens that one alone forms the seat of the disease ; on the contrary, though beginning but in one, it be apt to involve other, sometimes all the different, tissues of the lungs; — still, I ap- prehend, we shall be best enabled to trace the propagation of the diseased action from one tissue to another, by making ourselves thoroughly ac- quainted with the symptoms peculiar to each. With principles so obviously plain and simple for our guide we shall now conclude these introduc- tory remarks, and at once proceed to the expo- sition of the diseases affecting that tissue, which is the seat of several different affections, usually con- founded together in common language under the denomination of colds: namely, the affections of the mucous tissue of the respiratory organs. * Vide the Introductory Remarks to the author's Synop- sis of Nosology.