An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis / [Thomas Reid].

  • Thomas Reid
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis / [Thomas Reid]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fever of a peculiar kind, having morning {weats and remiflions in the forenoon, occafioning a wafting of the flefh and {trength. This difeafe ufually attacks people of a delicate, weak, tender conftitution, having a great laxity of the mufcular fibre and contracted thorax; and as fuch habits of body are peculiar to certain families; in fuch cafes it may with fome degree of truth, be termed an hereditary difeafe: but.this, by no means, is to be under{tood in the fame fenfe, as Gout, Scrophula, Lepra, &c. where it is fcarce- _ ly pofflible, for the unfortunate defcen- dant, whatever precautions he may ufe, to avoid being afflicted by the difeafe of his anceftors. It appears in perfons of every age, but moft frequently in thofe from fifteen, or about puberty, to thirty- five. But it fometimes happens that children are born with violent coughs, emaciated, and have died in the month, evidently of a confirmed Phthifis. Young
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