A case of pneumothorax, with skiagraph / by William Pepper.

  • Pepper William, 1843-1898.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: A case of pneumothorax, with skiagraph / by William Pepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A CASE OF PNEUMOTHORAX, WITH SKIAGRAPH. By William Pepper, M.D., PHILADELPHIA, Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. T. F., aged 28 years, a laboring man, was admitted to the hospital on October 2, 1897, complaining of pain in the right side of the chest and dyspnea. Family History.—The patient’s father was killed in a coal-mine; the cause of his mother’s death is unknown. There is no history of phthisis in the family. The patient denies venereal disease and presents no evidence of syphilitic infection. He suffered the ordinary diseases of childhood, but had latterly been healthy, though he had a tendency to take cold during the last two or three years. During the last eleven months he has had a cough and muco-purulent expectoration. Occasionally the sputa were blood-tinged. He continued at work, exposing him- self to cold, and frequently wetting his clothes to the skin. His cough grew worse, and he had night-sweats, but did not lose flesh. During the three weeks preceding his entrance to the hospital he was engaged at walling the banks of a creek, and was constantly wet. On September 30 he came home from work feeling as well as usual, but early the next morning was attacked with pains in the right side, dyspnea, chills, and paroxysms of coughing. He was admitted to the hospital the next day. Physical Examination.—Large, florid man, face flushed, breathing difficult, alse of nose active. Chest: Respirations principally superior