Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott.

  • Boott, Francis, 1792-1863.
Date:
1833-1834
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The remainder of the volume is taken up with the subject of Pulmonary Consumption; the Efficacy of the Balsam of Copaiva, in treating In- flammations of the Mucous Membranes ; and on Chronic Diseases ; and the Virtues of the Har- rogate and Dimsdale Sulphureous Waters. His observations on Consumption were written a year before the publication of Laennec's admirable work, which did not appear in an English form till 1821, two years after the original French edition. His object was partly to point out those disorders with which it might be confounded, especially chronic inflammation of the bronchia, of the pleura, and of some portion of the lungs, and ul- cerations in the trachea ; and partly to indicate those causes which predispose to consumption, by breaking up the general strength and impairing the functions of the skin. This essay is valuable, in a preventive point of view, and as a contribu- tion from him to our knowledge of the symptoms of pectoral diseases, now made much more easy of diagnosis by the ingenious invention of the great French pathologist, who, like our lamented author, and both at about the same period of life, was fated to perish of a disease which he had laboured so as- siduously to make better known, and the improved means of detecting which will ever remain an im- perishable monument to his memory. In the spring or summer of 1818, Dr. Arm- strong presented himself for examination at the London College of Physicians, conformably to its regulations, which require that the graduate in