Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French of G.L. Bayle by William Barrow.

Date:
1815
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    Art. J.—First period—(Observations on Occult ^iithisis, or the Germ of Phthbis . , . 133 1st Observation, Tubercular Phthisis in an occult state, or which hitherto nothing had detected—Lungs full of Tubercles—Death from an attack of irre- gular intermitting Fever . , . 134 Observation. First period—Granular Phthisis—Lungs crowded with transparent Miliary Granulations —Death in an attack of Suffocation . . 140 Reflections on the mistakes that sometimes occur in at- tempting to assign the cause of Phthisis . - 143 3d Observation, Tubercular Phthisis—Large unencysted I'ubercles—Died of Peripneumony at tlie 8th day . ..... 145 Reflections on the Phthises which succeedPeripneumony 151 4t/i Observation, Granular Phthisis—Lung filled with Mi- liary Granulations—Death from profuse Hae- moptysis . . • . . 152 Reflections on the DifSculty of stopping the Progress of some Phthises . * . . . 156 5th Observation. Tubercular Phthisis—Numerous Tuber- cles in the Lungs—Death from Typhus Fever 157 Remarks on Phthisis which follows continued Fevers, and on the Ulceration of the Litestines that is observed in most cases of Typhus or Nervous Fever ..... 162 6th Observation, Occult Phthisis—Tubercles and Granula- tions—Death from an Haemoptysis produced by Acute Scurvy . . . . 164 Art. II. Second period of Phthisis—Observations on PhUiisis at the first degree .... 168 7th Observation. Granular and Ulcerated Phthisis at the first degree—Death from Malignant Fever . 168 Reflections on the passing from one degree of Phthisis to another , . . • • 172