Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions.

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    circumflances but too frequently hap- pen, the patient begins to complain of a forenefs, and of flight lancinating- pains fhooting through the bread, lometimes in the direction of the Me- diaftinum, and lometimes confined chiefly to one fide. The fbrenefs is pretty conftant, and much increafed by the cough. The pain in the fide often prevents the patient from lying on the fide affected; and this inability of ly- ing, except on one fide, frequently oc- cuis even when no fiich pain is felt. In this ftage of the difeafe, flufiling heats are felt in the palms of the hand and foies of the feet :• the breathing is fnort and laborious, and it is not long before the patient begins to expec- torate a thin and frothy phlegm, at firfl: in fmall quantities, coughed up with difficulty and forenefs, and now-and- then flreaked with blood :—this may ‘ be