Essays in heart and lung disease / by Arthur Foxwell.

  • Foxwell, Arthur.
Date:
1895
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    TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ON DYSPNOEA. (A Paper read In part before the Students' Medical Society at Mason College, February 1893.) Respiratory Dyspnc3ea : Unconscious, Conscious and Voluntary Varieties.—Pulmonary Inadequacy.—Collapse and CEdema of Lung.—Circulatory Dyspnoea : due to right heart, left heart, myocardium.—Air Hunger.—True Spasmodic Asthma : exciting causes are sudden irritation of mucous membrane of bronchi, contraction of smooth muscle of bronchi, contraction of pulmonary arterioles.^—Illustrative Cases . . Pp. 1-38 II. EXPECTORATION IN PHTHISIS. (Thesis for the Degree of M.B.) Chronic Tubercular Phthisis : its four stages.—Acute Miliary Tuberculosis. — Acute Pneumonic Phthisis. — Hjemoptoic Phthisis.—Bronchiec tasis.—Emphysema.—Morbid Growths.— Fibroid Phthisis.—Lung Abscess.—Pleuro-Pneumonic Abscess.— Apoplectic Phthisis —Gangrene.—Actinomycosis.—The Nature, Cause and Treatment of the Expectoration in each of these. Pp. 39-105 III. ON CATARRH. (A) The Nature of Acute Pneumonia in Children. The Variations in the Disease in London, Manchester, and Birming- ham : as to temperature, crisis, lung lesion, gastro-intestinal