Principles of pathological anatomy : adapted to the Cyclopedia of practical medicine and Andral's elements / by J. Hope.

  • Hope, James, 1801-1841.
Date:
1845
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    flammation alluded to, present various modifications, according to their location; in bronchitis the symptoms are modified by the inflammation of the mucous tissue, and we find cough, change in the secretions, etc.; in pneumonitis, hepatization, purulent infiltration and abscess supervene; and in pleuritis, effusion is a characteristic phenomenon. We should always bear in mind, however, that all these structures are intimately connected, and that inflammation, beginning in the parenchy- ma of the lungs, will be very likely to involve the investing membranes, especially the mucous; although this is not an invariable or a necessary result. It has been ascertained, by accurate statistics, that the right lung is more frequently the seat of pneumonitis than the left. The following are the proportions: Out of ten cases, Jive would be of the right lung, three of the left, and two would be double. Dr. Stokes is of opinion, that inflammation of the right lung is more frequently of the sthenic, and that of the left of the asthenic or typhoid grade. Pneumonitis is usually seated in the inferior part of the lungs, but in many instances the disease extends throughout the entire structure. It sometimes occurs, however, that the disease begins in the upper lobes. In an epidemic referred to by Stokes, many of the cases that entered the Meath Hospital had pneumonitis commencing in the upper lobes. In ninety- eight cases Andral found pneumonitis of the lower lobe in fifty-seven; of the upper in thirty, and of the entire lung in eleven.]