Pulmonary Consumption Its Nature Varieties And Treatment With An Analysis Of One Thousand Cases To Exemplify Its Duration PDF Download

Excerpt from Pulmonary Consumption: Its Nature, Variety, and Treatment; With an Analysis of One Thousand Cases to Exemplify Its Duration It is not possible to convey in a few words the views on the nature of Phthisis, to which I have been led by obser vation and reflection on the facts and opinions of others as well as my own: but the popular terms decline and con sumption are the most significant which I can employ to represent them. I believe Pulmonary Consumption to arise from a decline or deficiency of vitality in the natural bio plasm or germinal matter; and this deficiency manifests its effects not only in a general wasting or atrophy of the whole body, but also in a peculiar degradation, chiefly in the lungs and lymphatic system, of portions of this bioplasm into a sluggish low-lived, yet proliferating matter, which, instead of maintaining the nutrition and integrity of the tissues (which is the natural office of the bioplasm), clogs them and irritates them with a substance which is more or less prone to decay, and eventually involves them also in its own dis integration and destruction. This degraded bioplasm, which I will call ptlz inoplasm (wasting or decaying forming mate rial), may be thrown out locally, as a result of inflammation; or it may arise more spontaneously in divers points of the bioplasm in its ordinary receptacles, the lymphatic glandu lar system; and' then it commonly appears in the form of miliary tubercles, scattered through the adenoid tissue of the lungs. 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.