An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764
Date:
1750
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ »7 ] CHAP. IX. Of the Phthisis Pulmonakia* HE next and laft Thing which I JL. have to confider is the Phthifis Pul- monaria\ a Difeafe the moft frequent of any that is fent here, and the moft difficult to manage. The general Opinion concern¬ ing this Diftemper is, that it begins with Inflammation, which, not being difeuffed in time, fuppurates, and fo ends in Ulcer j and this by two different Ways 5 fir ft* in the natural Method, as any other Inflamma¬ tion may 5 fecondly, by, Haemorrhage 5 in which Cafe, as the extravafated Blood can¬ not be fo perfectly expe&orated, but fome of it will remain behind 5 this, they fay, in fo moift and warm a Place, is very apt to be conco&ed into Pus, and fo corrupt the neighbouring tender Parts. Hence we are told, by Authors both ancient and modern, that no Part of the Body is fo fubjeft to Suppuration as the Lungs 5 and moft Wri¬ ters not only deferibe a Phthifis as arifing from Ulcer of the Lungs, but make Ulcus Pulmonum a fynonimous Term for it. And 1