Canada Medical And Surgical Journal 1879 PDF Download

Excerpt from Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 4: June, 1876 It appears that on the evening of the loth, Mrs. R. Was suddenly seized with most alarming symptoms of suffocation, constriction and pain within the chest, particularly on the left side, attended with great distress, countenance and skin livid, dyspnoea, and violent paroxysms of coughing, which ended in her coughing up a quantity of what ultimately proved to be fibrinous tube casts of the bronchi, equal in bulk to about a large table spoonful, when washed from the accompanying catarrhal expectoration. The sputa were at first, and only at first, very slightly tinged with blood. And a few blood points were observed on some of the tube casts. In a few hours another paroxysm of coughing ended in more expectoration of tube casts, the disappearance of cyanosis, and most marked relief to the patient. When I saw Mrs. R. Near midnight of the 11th I had the consolation to find - after my lonely drive of 30 miles - the patient wonderfully calm, breathing quietly, suffering no pain, and anxious only as to the significance of the beauti fully moulded bronchial trees, which had appeared in such questionable shape and which were carefully pre served in a bottle of water for my inspection. To her, and her husband, they were ominously suggestive of bronchial tubes and though I had never seen tube casts before, having only read descriptions of them, I was happy to be able to corroborate, much to the patient's peace of mind, Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.