An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption : submitted ... for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 5th day of May, 1807 / by Alire Raffeneau Delile.

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1807
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption : submitted ... for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 5th day of May, 1807 / by Alire Raffeneau Delile. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On account of the frequency of hcemoptoe as the exciting cause of phthisis, Dr. Cullen has placed this disease, with great propriety, in his class hccmorrhagice. It is also to be observed, that females are more frequently the subject of this disease than males; which is to be ascribed not only to their more delicate frame of body, but also frequently to a suppression or irregula- rity of their periodical evacuations. But haemop- tysis, without some predisposition, is not of itself sufficient to produce phthisis. Persons of good constitution recover with little danger from the rupture of a vessel in the lungs, occasioned by the application of external violence and other causes. Numerous instances have been recorded by practical writers, of females who have en- joyed perfect health after having laboured for many years under habitual discharges of blood from the lungs, which nature seemed to have substituted for menstruation. Pneumonia, especially pneumonia peripneumonia, may produce phthisis, but requires the formation of vomica, and a predisposition in the person affected. This event rarely happens. With good management pneumonia terminates by resolution towards the fifth or seventh day. Symptoms of inflammation, however, may continue longer, and the disease may be protracted beyond the fourteenth day; in which case the formation of an abscess is to be expected. Its termination, by
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