On the determining causes of vesicular emphysema of the lung / by William Jenner.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1857
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Credit: On the determining causes of vesicular emphysema of the lung / by William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE DETERMINING CAUSES OF VESICULAR EMPHYSEMA OF THE LUNG. WILLIAM JENNEE, M.D., F.R.C.P. PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGK ; PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, ETC. Received Oct. 22d, 1856.—Read Jan. 13tli, 1857. Since the attention of physicians was fixed on vesiculai' pulmonary emphysema by Laennec, and the anatomical character of the disease demonstrated by that pathologist, the question as to the determining cause of the dilatation of the air-cells has been a fruitful source of controversy. The question to be decided is one of much practical in- terest ; for as vesicular emphysema is incapable of cure its prevention is of the highest importance, and to determine its cause is to determine the possibility of its prevention, and to some extent the means to be employed for its prevention.^ ' If the advocates of the theory now generally received, and which has been termed the inspiratory theory, be correct, then powerful expiratory efforts, 30 fur as concerns the production of emphysema, are invariably to be encouraged as essentially preservative, the inspiratory ellbrts only arc to be moderated. Die Causalindication beuteht .... in Vermel-