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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    rent mode of cure. A more simple view, there¬ fore, of the divisions of this genus, may be taken wkh advantage. In the division of any genus of disease into species, two great objects are to be had in view. The first and principal object is to point out such species as require a different mode of practice from each other. And the second object is to point out those species which can be distin¬ guished from each other by obvious symptoms during the life of the patient. The distinc¬ tion of species which can be discovered only by dissection after death, serves merely to per¬ plex and puzzle, without being of any ma¬ terial benefit. On this general ground, and with these objects in view, in phthisis pulmo- nalis, three different species may be pointed out, which may not only be distinguished by ob¬ vious symptoms during the life of the \patient, but which also require some difference in that mode of treatment best fitted for the removal of each.