Pulmonary consumption; its etiology, pathology and treatment : with an analysis of 1000 cases to exemplify its duration and modes of arrest / by C. J. B. Williams and Charles Theodore Williams.

  • Williams, Charles J. B. (Charles James Blasius), 1805-1889.
Date:
1887
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    then later his colleague, and thus enjoyed the opportunity of learning much from his clear judgment and original teaching. Twenty-three years of practice, in which pulmonary diseases formed a large proportion of the cases, and twenty years' service on the staff of the Brompton Hospital, have afforded me unusual opportunities for studying the phenomena and treatment of Consumption, and will, I trust, absolve me from the charge of presumption in undertaking this edition, the objects of which are—(1) to survey the experimental and other evidence on which the causation of tuberculosis by the tubercle bacillus rests, and to determine how much of the pathology and clinical history of Consumption is due to this organism and its action, primary and secondary, on the tissues, and how much to other agencies; (2) to consider, in addition to the ordinary type of Consumption, the varieties of the disease, and to treat in some detail of the principal complications ; (3) to review the present treatment of Consumption in its various aspects. To carry out these objects it has been found necessary to re-write the pathology, and, in fact, the greater part of the book. Two chapters by Dr. C. J. B. Williams, viz. Chapters I. and IX., remain practically unchanged, and his ' mine' of cases, as the late Dr. Wilson Fox termed them, have been utilised as well as largely added to from my Brompton and private note-books. The chapters on ' Predisposing Causes ' and ' Haemoptysis' have been enlarged, and Chapters II. to VI. (Pathology), VIIL, XI. (Clinical Aspects of the Tubercle Bacillus), XII. (Temperature of Consumption), XIH. (Diarrhoea), XIV. (Pneumothorax), XV. (Albuminuria), XIX. (Fibroid and Laryngeal Phthisis), and XXII. (Prophylactic Treatment), and XXVI. (Antiseptic Treatment), fourteen in all, are new. The chapter on ' Climate ' has been re-written, and contains the conclusions which sixteen years' additional experience has yielded, including the remarkable curative influences of high altitud* s on (lonsumption.