The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital. 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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    ::ribed (vi. 8.) as proper for perlpneumony ; only topi- cal applications will here be attended with more effect. 7. From the connection of the two difeafes of'peripnett- mony and p/curify, the morbid appearances they exhi- bit, on diflection, require to be jointly examined. In opening the cheft in thefe difeafes, there have been dis- covered the lungs inflamed, their fpongy ftructure has appeared much redder than ufual, the colour being part- 7 florid, and partly of a darker hue. There has alfo <een found an extravafation of the coagulable lymph • lto the fubftance of the lungs, and fometimes of blood. :n this ftate, the lungs are confiderably heavier than na- tural, of a fleihy confidence, and fink in water. The ileura connected with the lungs is in the fame inflamed .ate, having its furface crowded with red vefTels, and layer of coagulable lymph lying upon it. Befides :lis, abfceffes are frequently found in the fubftance of hie lungs, and alfo in the pleura ; adhefions too of the 1 ibftance of the lungs to the pleura ; ferous collec- 1 ons in the cavity of the cheft ; the heart much enlar- eed ; and many other lefs important confequences of uflammation, from their connection affecting conti- uous parts. Tubercles alfo in .the lungs are a frequent appearance ; but the defcription of this morbid change elongs more properly to the chronic inflammation of > ic lung3, or pulmonary confumption, though tubercles re fometimes met with inperipneumony. Where empye- 1a takes place, as a confequence of peripneumony, it yidently proceeds from the burfting of an abfeefs in ne lungs; but mpleurijy, we often find it produced om the blood veflels of the pleura being in fuch a ate of inflammation as to form pus, without any ul«