Phthisis : its morbid anatomy, etiology, symptomatic events and complications, fatality and prognosis, treatment and physical diagnosis ... / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Phthisis : its morbid anatomy, etiology, symptomatic events and complications, fatality and prognosis, treatment and physical diagnosis ... / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PA(i K Introduction ... 17 CHAPTER I MORBID ANATOMY Chronic phthisis a bilateral disease—The law of parallelism in acute miliary tuber- culosis— Cases in which the right and the left lung were most diseased—Exceptions to the rule that the apex of the lung is first affected—Pulmonary cavities—Dis- placements of the heart in consequence of loss of the pulmonary substance—The morbid appearances in cases o acute miliary tuberculosis—Cases with pleurisy and pleuritic effusion—Phthisis and recent pericarditis—Phthisis and acute pneu- monia—Collections of liquefied morbid products—Case of poisoning with aconite, a single and small nodule the only evidence of phthisis—Case showing cicatrization eighteen years before death—Relationship of gray granulations and tuberculous exudation—The relative importance of gray granulations when associated with either exudatioD, liquefied morbid products, or cavities—Perforation of lung and pneumothorax—Coexistence of vesicular emphysema—Pleuritic adhesions—Inter- stitial pneumonia—Enlargement of bronchial glands and obstruction of a primary bronchus—Pulmonary apoplexy—Pulmonary gangrene—Dilatation of bronchial tubes—Diminished volume of lung—Circumscribed congestion in connection with haemoptysis—Morbid appearances of the heart—Morbid appearances in the larynx and trachea—Intestinal ulceration—Disease of the mesenteric glands—Peritonitis — Gastric ulcer—Morbid appearances in the liver, spleen, and kidneys—Throm- bosis of the iliac veins—Morbid appearances of the brain CHAPTER II. ETIOLOGY. Influence of age—Evidence therefrom of a constitutional predisposition—Influence of sex—Influence of occupation—Influence of antecedent diseases ; pleurisy, pneu- monia, and bronchitis—Haemoptysis—Antecedent disease.* ; intermittent fever, measles, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, rheumatism, perineal fistula, scrofulous affection of