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.

  • Bird, Samuel Dougan, 1832-1904.
Date:
1874
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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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    in the food or water by man, sheep and some other animals, become developed into the cystic parasite.^'' 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 does not happen till what we may call the second stage of the disease, when the entozoon has begun to die and be expelled from the body. Such an occurrence is, of course, positively distinctive, * Vide Mr. MacGillivray's paper in the Medical Journal, in March, 1867, where may also be found an interesting account of the special facilities afforded by Australian mining and pastoral life for the contracting of hydatid disease, together with a record of thirty-eight cases in various parts of the body.