Clinical lectures on pulmonary consumption / by the late Theophilus Thompson ; with additional lectures by his son E. Symes Thompson.
- Theophilus Thompson
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Clinical lectures on pulmonary consumption / by the late Theophilus Thompson ; with additional lectures by his son E. Symes Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![was introduced. Objections have been made to tliis combina,tion, as complicating the treatment witli tlie ad- dition of a medicine by some persons supposed to be inappropriate ] but my experience is favourable to tlie use of liquor potassse, especially in the early stage of phthisis, and theoretical arguments might be ad- vanced in its favour. In scrofulous affections, if Dr. Hughes Bennett be correct in his hypothesis, there is probably undue acidity of stomach, unfavourable to the solution of albuminous materials. The alkali of the salivary and pancreatic fluids, being neutralized, fails to fulfil its propel- ofiice. The lungs, not having enough carbon to excrete, local congestions arise ; the blood is overcharged with albumen, and the albuminous exuda- tion being deficient in fat, elementary molecules are not formed so as to constitute nuclei capable of develop- ment into cells, and tubercular corpuscles are the natural result. Cod-liver oil probably tends to obviate the series of derangements just described, by combining with the al- buminous element of chyme, so as to form the healthy chyle-granules which feed the blood; and, for the reason above named,is probablymore advantageously introduced in scrofulous subjects when combined with an alkaU. It is a curious fact that when, about seventy-five years since cod-hver oil was largely used at the Manchester Infir- mary, chiefly in the treatment of rheumatism, the me- dicine was ordinarily given combined with alkali; Dr. Percival's favourite prescription being twelve minims of soap lixivium, an ounce of cod-liver oil, and half an ounce of peppermint water. The practice of admini- stering a little lemon-juice afterwards would not ueces-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20399868_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
