Clinical medicine : observations recorded at the bedside with commentaries / by W.T. Gairdner.

  • William Tennant Gairdner
Date:
1862
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Credit: Clinical medicine : observations recorded at the bedside with commentaries / by W.T. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 were very acute bronchitis, or broncho-pneu- monia, in one with a probable tubercular complication ; 1 was sub-acute bronchitis, certainly with tuber- cular antecedents ; 3 were sub-acute bronchitis, supervening on old emphysema of the lungs ; 1 was sub-acute bronchitis, supervening upon old valvular disease of the heart; 1 was enteric fever, with very acute pulmonary complication; and 1 was influenza, pure and simple. 'While we have been watching these cases together, I have seen many, and heard of many more, cases of the simple and ordinary form of the disease. Not a few of yourselves have had it, and two or three have been seriously ill. Most of the cases that I have seen, how- ever, have been remarkable for the sharpness and sud- denness of the attack, and not less so for the rapidity of the passage from a state of feverish prostration to con- valescence. I have found a man with a pulse of 130 at night, and next day he has been up and about. This, of course, only happens with sound constitutions. In one or two instances, it has appeared to me that an emetic, given in time, has anticipated or cut short the attack. Certainly it has been followed by great relief. For the rest, the bed, or in mild cases, the sofa, restricted diet, laxa- tives when required, and liberal doses of opium when there is much restlessness and exhaustion, seem to me to