Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault].

Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive, 1759-1836

Date:: 1806

Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ie alle. important fervice in Phthifis; but we too rea- dily employ blifters, and too much neglect the feton and cauftic. The continual ufe of Can- tharides produces throughout the whole hu- moral fyftem a very fharp volatile falt, which remarkably favours the diffolution of the blood ; on which account they fhould be more parti- cularly abitained from in fcorbutic Phthifis... Mr. Portal, whofe information and difcern- ment are generally known, has demonttrated in a learned memoir, the direct communica- tions of the lungs with the cheft and fuperior extremities. ‘* It is below the Axille,” fays he, “‘ upon the fides of the cheft, and along the ‘‘ under part of the arm, where the cellular ‘© membrane is abundant, that thefe evacuato- _ ries ought to be placed. Anatomy pre- ‘* {cribes, and the nature of the difeafe indi- (6.eatestity” We mutt acknowledge, that in our practice we have profited by this judicious advice, and have found it correct: but we muft add, that we have always given the preference to the {eton*, when the repugnance of the patient has G 4 not * Pringle recommends a feton on the affected fide of the chett. Aildanus and Foufeca have proved by obfervation the utility of a fimilar$