An index of diseases and their treatment / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner.

  • Thomas Hawkes Tanner
Date:
1883
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Credit: An index of diseases and their treatment / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21 EnONCiriECTA.SIS—Isr/JNCJIITJS. BRONCHIECTASIS.—From Bp67xo?,—DilMtiUion of broiicliial tubes; niost_ coniiiioiily (lie result of chrnnic brniicliitis, but may be clue to adhcsiou of pleura, or fibroid cnndition ol' huif^s. Symptoms. Chrotiic cough and t,liorlncss ol' bi-catli ; oifcn.'-ixe sputa often very copious ; tubular breathing, with coarse crepitation 01- gurgling ; exaggerated vocal resonance. Boraetimes a portion of dilated tube cut ofTby occlusion of broiicliu.s and^ retained secretion, forms an abscess which may give rise to a cav^t3^ Tkeatment.—See BronchltU. Inhalations of iodine, creosote, or carl<)Iic acid. BRONCHITIS.—From Bpoyx?, the windpipe; terminal -ttis. Synon. Pulmonary Catarrli.—Inflammation of mucous mtmbrane of bronchial tubes. Jlay be acute or chronic, and in larger or smaller tubes : affects one or both lungs throughout, or only a jiortion of tliesc organs—usually the upper lobes. Symptoms of hay-asthma often of a bronchial character. 1. Acute Bronchitis.—A dangerous disorder: iudammatory acliiai often spreads to vesicular te.xturc of lungs. SvMi'TOMs. Fever. A sense ol' tightness or constriction abdut chest. Hurried respiration, with wheezing. Cough. Expeclcu-alion of viscid glairy frothy mucus, and afterwai'ds of ]iurulent secretion. Fi'cquent, and ofien weak, pulse. Foul tongue. Headache and lassi- tuile. Sickness. Great anxici}-. Inllaninialiou of larf/er and mcd/inihfi!;.(.<l tubes, a(tended by less severe symptoms and results than (jcncral and capillari/ broucliitis. Latter rare in adults ; cliiefly seen in very young and old. It is recog- nized by tendency to cause asphyxia; paroxysms of dyspmea or orllio- pniua; congestion of surface; perpetual cough; general restlessness; increasing jirostration ; and, in fatal cases, somnolence, luuttcring delii'ium, and coma.— Sometimes, during progress of acute lironchili.s, one or moi'C tubes become choked n]i with viscid ])hlegni ; pulmom/i-i/ c(illa/ini' resulting, esjiecially in children—a portion of Imig being emi)lied of air. One frci|ncnt result of collapse is vesicular em])hv- scnia ; so that los.s of I'nnclinn in airless ]iart of lung is compensated i'oi- by iui-rease of volume in m)n-obslrneted purlion. In early slagi: of bronchilis, auscullatiiin often delects two drv sounds r/i<incliIIS a)id sibiliis. Khonchus belongs (o larger bronchi : siliihis besjieaks more danger, as denoting that smaller air-tubes and vesicles iuv. alVeeted. Afler inflamed membrane has poured or.t fluid, the dry arc displaced by moist sounds—lari/e and xinall crfpitatinn. liluinclius and large crepitalicm are the dry !>nd moist soimds of larger air-i)assages : sibilus and small crepitation, of the .smaller branches. No markecl !ilierati(in in resonance of chest to be detected; with except inn of increased resonance in emphysema, and dull percussion- nole in collajise. ']i;r.ATMi-,Ni-. ((inlinemenl fo bed. 'rem]iernture of room (,'>•' to 70^ Air to be moistened by steam. l!eef-tca, milk, arrowroot, or
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