Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. To which are added, some remarks on the climate of the United States, the West Indies, &c.

  • Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. To which are added, some remarks on the climate of the United States, the West Indies, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER XL TREATMENT. In many diseases physicians may safely adopt, as the result of their experience, a routine practice, chiefly modi- fied by the degree of violence in the symptoms. It is not so in phthisis; for there is no malady which assumes so many protean forms, and is attended by such diversi- fied complications. Hence I have felt at a loss how to methodise my views, so as to avoid repetition and pro- lixity. It has occurred to me, however, in the first place to give an outline of the practice that is called for in the different forms and stages of phthisis: 2. to detail the treatment of particular symptoms; 3. to examine sepa- rately the merits of those articles of the materia medica that are most useful in this disease; and lastly, to devote some observations to clothing, exercise, climate and sea- vova£ing. SECTION I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS AND STAGES OF PHTHISIS. I. The simplest form of consumption presents itself with a short, dry cough, with very little fever, and imper- fect respiration in some part of the lungs; but the pro-