The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families that have not the advantages of a physician and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkens, M.D.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1814
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    CHAP. XIV. PLEURISY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE INTERNAL PARTS OF THE BREAST. THE end of winter, spring and begin- ning of summer are the usual times that this disease is prevalent; all ages and most constitutions are liable to it, but the plethoric, and those of a rustic constitu- tion, who have seen twenty years, and not exceeded sixty, are most liable. Causes. Cold and heat applied alter- nately, or unequally, straining or injuring of the parts, &c. Symptoms. It usually begins with chills, which are followed by heat, quick, strong, and full pulse, head-ach, difficult breathing, dry cough at the beginning, though some- times it begins moist : towards the end, or after it has continued, it is always moist, and sometimes a very considerable quanti- ty of yellow mucus is discharged: this is not unfrequeutly streaked with blood.—. Most frequently, a pungent pain attacks the side, about the middle of the sixth or seventh rib, bat if the pain should attack any other part of the chest, and should not be so violent, yet accompanied with the other symptoms, particularly the full, strong and quick puis*-, we are to consider the complaint as the, same,