Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    summers. He was utterly reduced by night sweats, colliquative diarrhea, cough, and profuse sputa. The air of the room in which he lay one could cut, so to speak, with a knife. His parents hung a blind over the window when I had it opened. I took the win- dow out, however, and made his father carry the boy, well wrapped up in blanketing, daily out of doors, just like a babe in arms. He was well supplied with every kind of nourishment, among which, fresh eggs, new milk, and dilute whiskey were not forgotten. Isdel made a capital recovery, and when I last saw him, some years after, was in the enjoyment of per- fect health. Mrs. Cs two sisters died in quick succession of phthisis. The second sister I saw towards the close of her illness, and was able to abate the consuming hectic from which she suffered by somewhat copious doses of quinine. Presently, Mrs. C., along with her sisters daughter, began to spit blood. There were also other ominous signs. They lived in great opulence, re- newed air excepted, in which there was no opulence. I had the window removed and the sleeping room door, I think, taken off its hinges. Now, they slept virtually in the open air, a thing which neither Mrs. C. nor any of her relatives, among whom phthisis had been disastrously frequent, ever did before. The day they spent on horse-back either at home or along the seashore. After a time the hemoptysis entirely disappeared, nor was Mrs. C. or her niece ever after troubled by phthisis or any of its saddening accesso- ries To a lady prostrated utterly by a huge scrofulous