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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![\ , \ [ 8 ] nature of the primary one. The ge¬ nuine phthifis is ufually the effect of a certain pre-difpofltion of body, which is very often hereditary. This previous affection, in general, confifts either in a clifpofition to hemoptyfis or fpitting of blood, or in the formation of tuber¬ cles. Of thefe two caufes the latter feems to be the moft frequent and fatal; but in many patients they appear to be united. I (hall confine my obfervations chiefly to the treatment of the difeafe from tubercles ; it being well known, that when the complaint has made a certain progrefs, whether from hemoptyfis or tubercles, fo as to produce heftic fe¬ ver, and an expectoration of purulent matter from the lungs, the indications, however they might differ at firft, be¬ come pretty generally the fame. § i. /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
