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

Date:
1815
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    The lungs exhibit all the alterations-that have been remarked in the different publications relative to Phthisis. I have described them in speaking of the different species of this disease ; and some of these changes are stated in a very detailed manner in the remarks which I pub- lished on Tubercular Affections encysted and not encysted ; but the lung is never com- pletely destroyed, as has been stated in some very valuable works. What has given rise to this43nistake, which I mentioned in the 2d' chapter, page 14, is the empyema, which is the consequence of pleurisy become chronic; because, in certain circumstances, the lung applied, by means of a purulent collection, against the mediastinum or the pericardium, has been so completely compressed, and is so accu- rately covered by a false membrane, that one does not discover it. (Obs. 4].) Indeed one ought to know where to look for it in order to find it. Sometimes it is not an inch thick, and seems to make a part of the mediastinum or pericardium. Even a superficial examination is sufficient to enable one to discover the lun<r where the tissue is not altered, but only flattened and entirely deprived of air by the progressive compression. In almost all these particular
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