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An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis / by T. Reid, M.D.

  • Thomas Reid
Date:
1782
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Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis / by T. Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    and recommend mercury and fteel\ But iince the publication of the Phthihologia by the learn- ed Morton, the general opinion has been, that the hectic fever, and fubfequent diarrhoea, were caufed, by the purulent matter in the lungs being abforbed, and carried into the circulating fluids; and hence they have been termed putrid. This hypothecs has been adopted by the lateft authors upon the fubject, and I believe is received by the rnoft. eminent phyficians of the prefent age. Though the practice founded upon the theory of putrefaction, is in fome meafure given up; yet the impreffion is not, by any 3 Marten, Default, &c. means,
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