A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America : at different seasons of the year ; with an account of the most improved method of treating them ; being an abstact [sic] not only of the editor's own experience, but of the experience of several physicians ... residing in the different states ; including the substance of ... improvements that have been made in the treatment of similar diseases in other countries / collected and arranged by William Currie.

  • Currie, William, 1754-1828.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America : at different seasons of the year ; with an account of the most improved method of treating them ; being an abstact [sic] not only of the editor's own experience, but of the experience of several physicians ... residing in the different states ; including the substance of ... improvements that have been made in the treatment of similar diseases in other countries / collected and arranged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE PLEURISY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE PLEURA, OR MEM- BRANE SURROUNDING THE LUNGS. This disease, like the other genera of the second order, begins with a cold stage, but differs from the peripneumony in the seat and acuteness of the pain, and in the hardness and frequency of the pulse; its pathognomonic or characteristic symptoms being acute and pungent pain in one side of the thorax, most frequently the right, augmented chiefly during the time of inspiration, with an increase of pain when lying on the affected side in the early part of the complaint, but the reverse at a late period if suppuration has taken place. A most painful cough, dry in the beginning of the disease, af- terwards an expectoration of phlegm, most commonly of a light brown colour, and tinged with blood. The pulse being at the same time tense or hard, quick and strong. The cough and stitch always precede the fever, and not the fever the local inflammation, which from the fever cea- sing with the cessation of the pain proves it to be merely symptomatic.