Inaugural essay on pulmonary inflammation : submitted ... to ... the University of Glasgow ... when a candidate for a diploma ... / by William Lemon Dunlap.

  • Dunlap, William Lemon.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Inaugural essay on pulmonary inflammation : submitted ... to ... the University of Glasgow ... when a candidate for a diploma ... / by William Lemon Dunlap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    puration has taken place; from either of which casesy the chances of recovery are very small; though rather greater than from suppuration or effusion taking place into any other cavity. TREATMENT. The prime indication in Pneumonia is to subdue in¬ flammation ; for in this the disease essentially consists. Should it, however, unfortunately happen that sup¬ puration or effusion has ensued before the medical man has been called in, the line of treatment to be pursued must be totally different; and, in a great measure, re¬ gulated by the present state of the symptoms. To fulfil the first indication, which is also the most ordinary one, blood must be taken largely from the cubital or jugular veins. The quantity taken is mainly to be regulated by the effect produced. Perhaps, in every case, the blood should be allowed to flow till the