A probationary essay on some circumstances to be considered in considering in resorting to the operation of bronchotomy / [George Stewart Newbigging].

  • Newbigging, George Stewart, -1840.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A probationary essay on some circumstances to be considered in considering in resorting to the operation of bronchotomy / [George Stewart Newbigging]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nic complication sufficient to contra-indicate the oper¬ ation) where its effects are threatened suffocation, bronchotomy should be performed early if it is to be performed at all, and the more acute the attack the more prompt should be the application of the remedy if milder treatment appear to be inefficient. In cases of a more chronic nature, the lungs may gradually be brought to tolerate a diminution in the quantity of air which reaches them at each inspira¬ tion, but where the usual supply is quickly cut off, the system is less capable of accommodating itself to the privation, and in such instances the demand for the operation is more urgent, but at the same time its success is perhaps more demonstrably sa¬ tisfactory than where the progress of the disease has been less rapid. It must be kept in mind also that cases not unfrequently occur for which there are medicinal agents* of sufficient efficacy, if time were allowed for the full development of their effects. In these, however, the inflammatory action which threatens suffocation may not begin to yield to gentler treatment until the patient’s fate is to a certain ex¬ tent sealed. Such remedies may act well in gra¬ dually diminishing inflammation, but not in sudden¬ ly checking it, and if by any means assistance can be derived from some other measure, which will give time for their operation, the case may termi- D
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