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Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1791
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ lyi ] CHAP. XVII. OF A PERIPNEUMONY, OR INFLAMMA^ TION OF THE LUNGS. A S thisdifeafe afFedls an organ which is abrolutely neceffiiry to life, it mufl; always be attended with danger. Perfons who abound with thick blood, whofe fibres are tenfe and rigid, who feed upon grofs aliment, and drink firong vifcid liquors, are mofl liable to a peripneumony. It is generally fatal to thofe who have a fjat bread, or narrow ched, and to fuch as are adiidled with an adhma, efpecially in the decline of life. Sometimes the inflammation reaches to one lobe of the lungs only, at other times the ^hole of the organ is affedted ; in which cafe the difeafe can hardly fail to prove fatal. When the difeafe proceeds from a vifcid pituitous matter obdrudling the vefTels of the lungs, it is cal- led a Jpurious or haftard peripneumony. When it arifes from a thin acrid defluxion on the lungs, it is denominated a catarrhal peripneumony^ &c. CAUSES. An inflammation of the lungs is fometimes a primary difeafe, and fometimes it is the confequepce of other difeafes, as a quinfey, a pleu- rify, &c. It proceeds from the fame caufes as the pleurify, vi%, an obdrudled perfpiration from cold, wet clothes, &c. or from an increafed circulation of the blood by violent exercife, the ufe of fpiceries, ardent fpirits, and fuch like. The pleurify and peripneumony are often complicated •, in which cafe the difeafe is called -a, pleuro-peripneumony. SYMPTOMS. Mofl: of the fymptoms of a pleurify likewife attend aninflammationof the lungs; only in the latter the pulfe is more foft;^ and the pain lef§