An exposition of the pathology & treatment of tubercular phthisis / by Samuel Flood.

  • Flood, Samuel.
Date:
1842
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Credit: An exposition of the pathology & treatment of tubercular phthisis / by Samuel Flood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    running its headlong course almost without re- straint, spreading misery and devastation and ruin wherever it shows itself, with a malignity as fear- ful, and a power as uncontrolled, as if it were the very embodiment of death, which nothing could check but the consummation of all things. The writer on such a subject as this needs little apology ; but if he did, he might surely find it in the homes where its ravages have been felt, in the hopes and aifections that have been blasted and withered by its stroke, and in the fact that hitherto very little has been done in reality to arrest the progress of this desolating scourge. It is a matter of daily observation in the prac- tice of every one, that if two men are the subjects of an injury similar in its nature, and are placed under similar treatment, the one will be quickly re- stored to health, while the other will fall into a state of disease. Thus, if two men were to receive a se- vere blow on the knee by a fall, a stone, or what not, the joint of one will rapidly recover its normal condition, while that of the other will obstinately resist the same restorative means, and will put on all the symptoms of disease more or less chronic, and more or less difficult of cure. So, if two indi- viduals are placed for any length of time under the influence of damp or cold, such exposure will, in the one case, be followed by pneumonia, whicii will yield to ordinary treatment and terminate in reso- lution ; while, in the other, the pulmonary inflam- mation will assume a chronic form, and without any