A practical treatise on the diseases of the throat and lungs with their treatment by inhalation / by Robert Hunter.

  • Hunter, Robert, 1826-
Date:
1854
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the throat and lungs with their treatment by inhalation / by Robert Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    fingers, it gives out a flat, dull sound, instead of a clear and distinct one. The matter is now called Crude Tubercle, and denotes the second stage of Consumption. In the following cut, you see a representation of this condition. The tubercles are much longer than in the first stage, and the structure of the lunar more dense and solidified. The tubercular matter may now remain for weeks, months, and even years, in this crude state, awaiting a sufficiently excit- ing cause to carry it on to the next stage. Sooner or later, ecrofulous inflammation is produced by the irritation of the tubercles in tissues surrounding them, when the whole softens, breaks down, and forms an ulcerous excavation, c&vity, or space, in the substance of the lung, from which the matter finds its way into the air tubes, and is coughed up and expecto- rated. The following cuts will illustrate these cavities. In the first, we have a portion of the lung, in which three cavities only ex- ist; in the second, you see the lung perfectly riddled.