Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![• [ r4 ] have very lately feea a young gentle¬ man recover, who had this tranfparen- cy in a high degree, together with other fymptoms of incipient phthifis. Let us now attend to the beginning and progrefs of the difeafe, and to the me¬ thods of treating it in its different ftages. We (hall find that perfons of the above defeription often remain for a long time without any other inconve¬ nience than feeling fome oppreffion at the bread: in moift weather, or in hot apartments. Their breathing is eafily hurried, fometimes by the flighted: mo¬ tion, and they become languid, paler, and thinner. All this while, however, they feel no heat, or painful fenfation in the bread:. As the evil increafes, the patient begins to be attacked with a flight, frequent, and dry cough, which is mod: troublefome in the night-time. This,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


