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Lectures Chiefly Clinical and Practical on Diseases of the Lungs and the Heart
Lectures Chiefly Clinical and Practical on Diseases of the Lungs and the Heart Author:James Alexander Lindsay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: Baillière, Tindall and Cox Description: 2d ed. has title: Lectures on diseases of the lungs. 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 edi... more »tion of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE V. PLEURISY. Summary. , Causes of pleurisy, relation of tuberculosis to pleurisy, clinical experience on this point, bacteriology, inoculation experiments, trials of tuberculin for diagnostic purposes in pleurisy, influence of chill, statistics, influence of the infective fevers and constitutional diseases. Diagnosis of pleurisy -- difficulties in connection with the recognition of pleural friction and of pleural effusion, signs of pleural effusion, bronchial breathing and cavernous breathing in pleural effusion, differential diagnosis of pleurisy and pneumonia at an early stage, pleuro-pneumonia. Prognosis in pleurisy. Treatment of pleurisy -- general treatment, the relief of pain, promotion of absorption of the fluid, indications for tapping, contraindications, mode of tapping, dangers of tapping, results of tapping. Chronic pleurisy -- problems of treatment in connection with. Empyema -- diagnosis, treatment. I PROPOSE in the present lecture to give a short account of the subject of pleurisy -- especially from the point of view of diagnosis and treatment -- dwelling chiefly on those points where difficulties and differences of opinion are likely to arise. First, as regards cause, pleurisy may be due to -- (a) Chill. In a series of 74 cases under my own observation there was a history of chill in 26. It is, of course, . open to argument that the history may have been in Article, Diseases of the Pleura, Encyclopaedia Metlica, vol. 9. certain cases erroneous. There is ...« less