The curability of consumption: being the reprint of a series of papers, presenting the most prominent and important practical points in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the disease / [Francis Hopkins Ramadge].

  • Francis Hopkins Ramadge
Date:
1850
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Credit: The curability of consumption: being the reprint of a series of papers, presenting the most prominent and important practical points in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the disease / [Francis Hopkins Ramadge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quent cause of which is exposure of the cuticular surface to cold, which constringes the superficial vessels of the body. The deeper-seated vessels then become congested, and the bronchial mucous membrane has a difficulty in transmitting its venous blood into the venous system, and in consequence becomes tume¬ fied ; which tumefaction, by its power of retarding the expira¬ tion, arrests the progress of the disease. [Medical Times, September 11.] One of the alleged benefits of a southern climate is the in¬ fluence of a warm dry air on the animal economy, promoting an equable distribution of the circulating fluids over the system, and particularly augmenting the circulation of* the capillaries on the surface, and diminishing in the same proportion the congestion of the internal vessels, &c. We have means at home to promote the equable distribution of the circulating fluids; but by dimi¬ nishing the congestion in the mucous membrane of the lungs, we cut off from the patient the advantage of the remedial agency of our own climate. The liquefaction of tubercles may take place at any time; it is highly necessary, therefore, that the patient should always be within the reach of the best medical advice, which is hardly to be met with when at sea, or in many of our foreign places of resort. Persons sent abroad indiscriminately, for various diseases, are liable to fall into the hands of unskilful practitioners, who may, under the supposition of disorder of the liver, or from some other erroneous view of the case, administer mercury, and rapidly bring on a general and sudden softening of the tuberculous deposit. Aggravation of the symptoms always attends these liquefactions, and demands the utmost vigilance and skill, which may be more surely expected from one who has had familiar acquaintance with the patient’s consti¬ tution, and the history of his case, than from a stranger. The bland effect produced on the nervous system by change of scene, &c., with the superior opportunities of taking exercise
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