Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders.

  • Sanders, James, 1777-1843.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Treatise on pulmonary consumption, in which a new view of the principles of its treatment is supported by original observations on every period of the disease : to which is added an inquiry proving that the medicinal properties of the digitalis, or fox-glove, are diametrically opposite to what they are believed to be / by James Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIII. TREATMENT OF THE SECOND OR SUP- PURATIVE STAGE. SECTION I. Treatment according to the Different Appear- ances of the Sputa. THE second or suppurative stage, as is implied in the name, commences with the generation of pus, which occurrence is in- dicated by the symptoms detailed in the history of the disease, even though, as fre- quently happens, they are succeeded by no purulent sputa. The management of this stage requires more skill, caution, prudence and scientific discrimination, than that of any period of this, or perhaps of any other disease. The sores of the lungs, as has been anti- cipated, may have all the different charac- ters of sores on the external parts of the body ; the scrofulous, the scorbutic, the