Observations on the distinguishing symptoms of three different species of pulmonary consumption, the catarrhal, the apostematous, and the tuberculous; with some remarks on the remedies and regimen best fitted for the prevention, removal, or alleviation of each species / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1813
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Credit: Observations on the distinguishing symptoms of three different species of pulmonary consumption, the catarrhal, the apostematous, and the tuberculous; with some remarks on the remedies and regimen best fitted for the prevention, removal, or alleviation of each species / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before a fatal conclusion takes place. And this fever principally, perhaps even solely, arises from the absorption of purulent matter, or rather from the absorption of a sanious or vitiated pu¬ rulent matter, which produces in the human system effects much more deleterious than the absorption of mild pus, void of any peculiar foetor, or other strong sensible qualities. Such a sanious matter, however, when generated in the lungs, may be afforded from different causes. Hence, among those writers who have consider¬ ed phthisis pulmonalis as a genus of disease, that genus has been divided into many different spe¬ cies. In the System of Sauvages, twenty Spe¬ cies are enumerated under this Genus. But from such minute subdivisions, no benefit, and mucb inconvenience arises. Hectic fever, indeed, pro¬ duced by purulent matter absorbed from the lungs, may arise from many different accidents* and many different diseases: And thus it can¬ not be denied, that there is a foundation for many different species of phthisis. But after, in these cases, phthisis is induced, such species can neither be distinguished from each other by the symptoms, nor do they require a diffe¬ rent