On hydatids of the lung : their diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and observations on their relations to pulmomary consumption, and other diseases of the chest / by S. Dougan, M.D.

  • Bird, S. D. (Samuel Dougan)
Date:
1874
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    ping, and the bromide and kamela, cured it as usual, but though great care with regard to the drinking water was taken, another cyst developed in the upper lobe of the right lung about a year afterwards. This also was tapped, and the same drugs given, with the result of a complete cure, no trace of either parasite being appreciable at the present time, and the young lady being in excellent health. None of the other members of the family have ever had any symptoms of the kind, nor any of the numerous servants on the estate. Such susceptible persons can but.avoid drinking any water but what has been boiled or stone- filtered, the former being by far the safest; and if, in spite of this, they contract hydatid, it is their mis- fortune, not their fault. Then, being fore-armed as well as fore-warned, they should attack their enemy, both from without and within, with cold steel and poi- son while he is still in his tender youth, and nip the young colonist in the bud, before he has had time to frame his new constitution, and build a wall round his rising township. No Fabian policy will succeed with a hydatid, he must be crushed as soon as he is discovered, as Emperors crush revolutions, and Boards of Health stamp out pleuro-pneumonia. The question of probability of recurrence of hyda- tid is one of special importance in reference to the selection of lives for assurance by Australian com- panies. Should an applicant be declined because he has formerly had hydatid of an internal organ ? Not
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