Practical observations on diseases of the lungs and heart / By Archibald Billing.

  • Billing, Archibald, 1791-1881.
Date:
MDCCCLII. [1852]
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Credit: Practical observations on diseases of the lungs and heart / By Archibald Billing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13G IDIOPATniC HEMOPTYSIS. which it is difficult, if possible, to distinguish from the first cougdi of consumption : this is the short, dry cough of hysteria, which is by diluted sulphuric acid and the treatment recom- To the idiopathic haemoptysis Laennec gave a name which, however it least as a marked distinct moptysis : he called it aJ sometimes arises from ai blow on the chest, &c., or from a spot of inflamma- tory disease causing the vessels to pour out blood, cod-liver oil, &c., as remedies fc of them on record, which may not occur to any man twice in his however, a couple of cases of strumoid tumours in the chest, like enlarged glands, of a substa thoracic viscera, than any inflammatory or malignant disease : one of the masses was five inches in diameter. Another similar case, which has deceived several practitioners, I have still under surveillance. hystericus; and I lmt e kno bronchitis so aggravated 1 as to give rise to suspicio moptysis even having tali vicarious of catamenia, ant mended in p. 44. j ^ derful thing: it can remove mou * In this work my object is tion, rather than rare and curiov , o lifetime. These curiosities, whic after, afford but little practical. symptoms of phthisis, all exce] bronchophony by their solid in death was caused by another rather from enormous bulk o