Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature / By Samuel George Morton.

  • Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature / By Samuel George Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    especially in the lungs, intestines, and some parts of the lym- phatic system.* Influence of sex.—I am unable, from personal observation, to venture a decided opinion on this subject. Most authors, however, consider women more liable to phthisis than men. The symptoms of consumption are generally arrested, or at least greatly mitigated, during pregnancy, owing to that powerful excitement which the uterus receives at this critical and important period, by which the irritative pulmonary actions are subdued, and the impetus of vascular action directed into another course.f * Andral, Anat. Path. J Reid, On Consumption, p. 213.