Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature, as well as remedial art, operates in effecting a healing process in cases of consumption [...] / by Francis Hopkins Ramadge.

  • Ramadge, Francis Hopkins, 1793-1867.
Date:
1836
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Consumption curable, and the manner in which nature, as well as remedial art, operates in effecting a healing process in cases of consumption [...] / by Francis Hopkins Ramadge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    36/294 (page 30)
    ever, it must surely be when it occurs in the form which we are now considering.—(i. e. in the form termed by Dr. Latham unmixed phthisis)—het us, therefore, now give a few moments to this in- teresting question. A vomica certainly does admit of reparation so far as not to be a vomica any longer, but not so far as to leave behind it no trace with- in the lungs. It leaves behind it a scar—that is, the disease ceases in the part, but the part is not restored to the exact condition in which it was before the disease began. In examining by dis- section the bodies of those who die of Pulmonary Consumption, among many existing Vomicae we occasionally find the traces of a Vomica healed. At the apex of the lung we find an indentation, and descending from it, for half an inch or an inch, a thick perpendicular line of tough liga- mentous substance. Sometimes this substance, by being pulled asunder, is discovered to contain the remains of a cavity, and sometimes not. But what imports this reparation of a single Vomica, if so many besides still exist'? A reparation of a