A practical and historical treatise on consumptive diseases / Deduced from original observations, and collected from authors of all ages.

  • Thomas Young
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1815
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    vertebrae: he thinks: that:remedies held in the mouth may possibly glide down the larynx: but that they, act more in the form of vapour; and that a sitting room may be made, by proper ef- fluvia, to serve instead of avoyage to Egypt. In his epistles we have a discussion of Severinus on the expectoration of pus from the interpleural cavity of the thorax: Ambrose Paré is quoted as asserting, that bitter injections, thrown into the thorax,.caused a bitter taste in the mouth: but it is not certain, that in these cases, the lungs were. not wounded. : * tia SyLvius presents us, in his pocket volumes, with a clear and distinct abstract of the older doctrines. respecting consumption, accompanied by some judicious remarks of his own.’ He considers the predisposition to consumption, hereditary in some families, as depending both on the solids and on the fluids; but as consisting principally in the existence of glandular tubercles, which, when in a state of suppuration, constitute the vomicae. He thinks we must necessarily suppose, that there are in the lungs a number of minute and almost invisible conglobate glands, such as are: often discovered in a state of disease in other parts, as T. BARTHOLINE Epistolarum centuriae, 1663. 8. Hague 1740. i. 68. Fr. DE LE BOE Sytvil Praxeos medicae idea nova. 3 v. 12. Leyd. 1671-4. LI]. iv. 4. nw26, 42, 61, 52, .