Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French of G.L. Bayle by William Barrow.

Date:
1815
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Credit: Researches on pulmonary phthisis / from the French of G.L. Bayle by William Barrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pleurisy occasions if to be taken for a vomica, wliich it in effect much resembles. The mistake' becomes more easy, when in this case the whole cavity of the chest is in the state above described, and the lung altered in its form. One lobe of tliis viscus seems totally destroyed, and the other to contain a large cavity filled with pus, and an extensive ulceration that would seem to have consumed the parenchymeof the centre of this lobe. I have myself been de- ceived, before I had, by long habit, learnt to verify, with scrupulous care, the particular state of the injured organs. But an attentive exa- mination of the lung shews, that in such cir- cumstances its structure is not eroded, and that its lobes are entire. The supposed sac of a vomica, if detached with care, no longer exists; two false membranes are alone observed, sepa- rated at the middle of their two contiguous surfaces, strongly attached to each other at the edges, and uniting the two lobes of the lungs so intimately, that they seem only one. Lastly, there are some varieties of chronic pleurisy, where one lung has been supposed to be completely destroyed, and where it is assert- ed there did not remain a trace of it. This destruction of the lung has been regarded as
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