Pathological researches on phthisis / Tr. from the French, with introduction, notes, additions, and an essay on treatment, by Charles Cowan. Rev. and altered by Henry I. Bowditch.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Pathological researches on phthisis / Tr. from the French, with introduction, notes, additions, and an essay on treatment, by Charles Cowan. Rev. and altered by Henry I. Bowditch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. [The numerals denote the Observations, the figures the page, the capital letters the scctioni of the Translator's Appendix.] Age. Its influence upon phthisis, 4-17, G. Jlorla. Frequently red internal!) . 52 ; almost always in young subjects* 52 ; its organic lesions < omnion alter the age of thirty-five years ; it- -i/<- lis. in phthisis, but particularly in ■ in i s (ban ill acute dis- eaaea, 58; the cause of its redness and »»t it- organic Lesioni .'Ipo/iltxy. Not found after acute diseases, which (act ilistinguishes it from softening ol the brain. Arachnitis. Comes on sometimes towards the I i~t periods of phthisis, tin. ventricular arachnitis, its symptoms, S07, wi\ ; sub-arachnoidean effusion complicated with partial softening, .'til. \xv. Arachnoid 1- tin source at times of opaque granulations, morbid pro- ductions near the longitudinal fissure, 189, 140 ; contain- sometimes serous fluid in its superior cavity, and the membrane situated under it is frequently Infiltrated, 110. B. Hands. Found in tuberculous excavations, their structure, 14, 330, xxix. Belladonna. Employed without success in cough; its eftects, 449. Bile. Oftcner black ami thick in patients who died of phthisis, than in those who died of other diseases, and when the liver is fatty than under any- other circumstances, 110. Bladder. Almost perfectly healthy in phthisical patients, 121. Blood-letting. Its inetficacy in many cases of haemoptysis, x, xlii.