Observations on pulmonary consumption, and on the utility of the climate of Madeira for phthisical patients, addressed to a physician in London / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
[1801?]
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Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, and on the utility of the climate of Madeira for phthisical patients, addressed to a physician in London / by Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( -2 ) which, as foon as the fac had any communi- cation with the air, became putrid. Hence they confidered the difeafe a corruption of the lungs, and fancied that putrid matter from ^the liver and other parts, being transferred to that organ, might produce an incurable diieafe. We find Celfus, with his ufual accuracy, making a diftinftion between ?)6kj-»? and tabeSy confidering the former as only one fpecies of the latter. But that fpecies of confumption from which originated the term phthifis, is ufually the efFe£t of pleurify, and is very different from another with which it is confounded, and which gave rife to the idea that the expecto- ration of purulent matter was neceffarily fatal. This laft difeafe has its origin in the ramifications of the bronchia. It begins with cough and expe£loration of mucus. If thefe continue for any time in a young fub]e£fe, there is always an apprehenfion left the dif- eafe fhould be confirmed; that is, left by fre- quent returns of inflammation the fecretion fhould become habitual. This dan2;er is very much increafed if the patient contrails the habit of ftraining himfelf into a cough, in order