A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip.

Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of those diseases, either acute or chronic, which precede change of structure : with a view to the preservation of health, and, particularly, the prevention of organic diseases / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these have preceded his present complaint, the less variable the symptoms are, and the less they are influenced by the state of the stomach: the less the spirits are depressed, and the more confidence the patient has in his recovery, the more we have reason to beheve that the disease has originated in the hmgs. We have reason to make the same infer- ence when the expectorated fluid is rather suddenly increased in quantity, and at the same time assumes more of the purulent character, especially if the purulent matter appear in small distinct masses; if it be oc- casionally mixed with blood, and particularly if the blood be much mixed with it, and still more if they be now and then so perfectly mixed together, as to present the appearance of a thick creamy mass of a reddish hue, the masses of matter at the same time increasing in size,—if the difficulty of breathing has been uniformly increasing, and has been uniformly increased by exercise, and not remarkably so by meals,—if it is little changed by the recumbent posture, and the patient complains little of a D D 2