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Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng].

  • Malcolm Flemyng
Date:
1763
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Credit: Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 20 ] bad refpiration to the adhefion of his lungs to the diaphragm Under one head are ranged nine inflan- ces, and briefly rehearfed; in all which it would appear that adhefions of lungs to the Pleura were the only preternatural ap¬ pearances, that could account for the Dy- fpncea, which proved fatal in them; as no other are noted •j'*. And to mention only one more, in the body of a woman, who died in her preg¬ nancy, and was afthmatic, the like ftrong accretions were found ; and both the lobes of the lungs were of a preternatural co¬ lour. More is not faid. It would appear that in this cafe likewife the accretions were (at leaf! in a great meafure) the caufe of the difeafe *Lib. 2. Seft. i. Obfervat. 6l. Edit. Manget. f Ibid. Obfervat. 64. J Ibid. Obfervat. 65. This