On hydatids of the lung : their diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and observations on their relations to pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest / by S. Dougan Bird.

Date:
1877
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Credit: On hydatids of the lung : their diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and observations on their relations to pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest / by S. Dougan Bird. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    few indigenous animals which feeds on the Eucalyptus leaves, is always free from intestinal worms, and is very fat. The kangaroo, on the other hand, which feeds on grass, has no fat, and swarms with worms, both in the intestines and also in the muscles and joints. The whole subject of the etiology of hydatid is one of great interest and importance, and offers a fine field for original research, for which the above re- marks are thrown out as suQfo-estions. The object of this work is to consider specially the means at our disposal for recognising with exactness the existence and locality of hydatid cysts within the chest wall, especially while the parasite is still in its integral state, and the sputa afford no assist- ance in the diagnosis from other morbid conditions presenting physical signs somewhat similar. Next, the curative treatment of such cysts, whether before or after their rupture and partial evacuation into the bronchial tubes, by operative measures, and medi- cines given by the mouth or otherwise; lastly, the prognosis or probable future of persons so affected, and relations with other diseases, more especially with pulmonary tubercle. Diagnosis.—There can be no doubt that the only absolute evidence of the existence of hydatid in the lung, whether originating there, or in process of passage from the liver, is by the appearance in the sputa of the characteristic cysts or portions of them, or fragments of the booklets of echinococci; but this