On Chronic Bronchitis Lectures Author:Edward Headlam Greenhow General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LECTUKE III. GOUTY BRONCHITIS. Relations Between Chronic Bronchitis And The Gouty Dyscrasia Co-existence Of Gout And Bronchitis In Individuals -- Frequent Existence Of Both Diseases In Same Families Gout DisproporTionately Common Amongst Bronchitic Patients -- Habitual Alteh- Nations Of Gout And Bronchitis In Persons Subject To Both Diseases: Subsidence Of Gouty Symptoms Followed By The Development Of Bronchitis : Bronchitis Relieved By The AppearAnce Of Gout -- Remarks On The Use Of Colchictjm. Gentlemen, -- In my lecture on the etiology of chronic bronchitis, I gave you the general results of a careful analysis of ninety-six cases of that disease, which had been under my care during the previous three months; directing your attention, especially, to the facts elicited by that analysis in reference to the various causes and complications of the bronchial affection. I told you, moreover, as a result of that analysis, that, in a large proportion of cases, bronchitis is a secondary, not a primary disease; that is to say, a disease arising out of some other previously existing ailment or constitutional dyscrasia: adding, that long practical experience had convinced me of this fact, quite as strongly as the results of any such analysis could possibly do. I also, in that and in a subsequentlecture, brought before you several examples of primary bronchitis, arising solely from exposure to external exciting causes, such as cold or wet, or the inhalation of dust or of unwholesome air. I now, therefore, purpose to enter on the consideration of secondary bronchitis : but as it would, manifestly, be impos...« less