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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![r ax ] And here it will not be foreign to my fubjedt to obferve, that a fympto- matic cough, which has its rife not from catarrh, or from an immediate inflammation of the lungs, but from their fympathy with the ftomach, has fometimes laid the foundation [of phthi- fis, from its having been miftaken and of courfe improperly treated* It feems to be owing to a redundancy or viti¬ ated ftate of the bile, or to fome affec¬ tion of the ftomach, which it is per¬ haps not eafy to define. It is fome- times a concomitant of other bilious fymptoms, and when this happens to be the cafe, it cannot eafily be miftaken; but we fometimes find it occurring ifingly, and in general attacking per- fons of a fedentary life. The ingeni¬ ous Dr. Stoll of Vienna, who has no¬ ticed this cough, has very properly given](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
