Clinical lectures on pulmonary tuberculosis.

  • Thompson, Theophilus, 1807-1860.
Date:
1854
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    LECTURE XIII. Distressing incidental symptoms of phthisis—Night perspirations—Cough —Results of consumption—Apparent cure—Contraction of cavities— Unfavourable cases—Acute phthisis—Progress of decay—Phosphatic concretions in the choroid plexuses—Mental condition of the dying— Conclusion. In proceeding, gentlemen, to conclude this course for the present session, it occurs to me that among the more distressing incidental symptoms of consumption, are some which have been only cursorily noticed, and on which it might have been profitable to dwell. There is only time, to-day, to revert to one or two of these symp- toms. One of these is night perspirations. You have had numerous opportunities of observing how often, without any treatment specially directed to control the perspirations, they have ceased under the employment of means calculated to improve the general constitu- tional condition. Such a result, however, is by no means constant. You have seen that various medicines have been administered, with a view to diminish this cause of distress. Sometimes it has been relieved by small doses of opium, as contained in compound kino powder, or Dover's powder, sometimes by mild ape- rients; but the remedies usually thought appropriate are acids, such as the sulphuric and the gallic. The