Disputatio medica inauguralis de phthisi pulmonali ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Joannes Ogilvy.

  • Ogilvy, George John, 1780?-1810.
Date:
1804
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    phthisi obnoxios esse, et maximam partem phthiscorum hanc dispositionem plane ha- bere. Smit quidem medici non parvi nomi- nis, qui, ex centum aegrotis phthisi absump- tis nonaginta ad minimum, scrofulosos esse, ponunt. Praeterea, magna certe similitudo et analogia est inter tubercula et ulcera phthi- sica in puhnonibus, et tumores abcessusque scrofulosos in cgeteris corporis partibus *. CuLLENO celeberimo judice, oriri possunt tubercula ab acrimonia a morbis variis orta, e. g. a variola, a morbillis, a scarlatina, et praesertim a scrofula f. Causis * Vid. GriTgor. Tent. Inaug. p. 23. ■f- Auftor hic acutissimus et do£lIssimus inqult : In one case, and that too a very frequent onc, of phthisis, it appears, that the noxious acrimonj is of the same kind with that which prevails in scro- fula. This may be concluded from observing, that a phthisis, at its usual periods, frequently attacks persons born of scrofulous parents ; that is, of parents who had been affeded with scrofula in their young- er years; that very often, when the phthisis ap- pear