On the relations between 'idiopathic' pleurisy with effusion and tuberculosis : a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Ernest H. Cartwright.

  • Cartwright, Ernest H.
Date:
1894
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Credit: On the relations between 'idiopathic' pleurisy with effusion and tuberculosis : a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Ernest H. Cartwright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE BELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IDIOPATHIC PLEURISY WITH EFFUSION AND TUBERCULOSIS. Knowing that this, a question of considerable interest and of no little importance, is still a very debatable point, it occurred to me when I was House Physician at the City of London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park, that it might be worth while to collate what had been hitherto published on the subject and at the same time to try and follow up, as far as possible, those patients who had in past years been treated in that hospital for apparently primary pleurisy, with a view to ascertaining in what proportion of the cases tubercular disease had ensued. The investigation of these cases, unfortunately, turned out to be less satisfactory, from a purely statistical point of view, than I had hoped; nevertheless, although the number I was able to collect is but small, I am tempted to bring them forward as being perhaps not altogether without interest, though I shall not pretend to deduce any results therefrom in the form of percentages. Before dealing with them, however, it is necessary to refer briefly to the history of the subject, to consider what the