The Chronic Diseases Volume 1 12+

📕 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... lungs spring from inflammation of the chest, mismanaged by blood-letting; this disturbance ought always to be considered as an indication of excited psora. Cough, inducing a considerable expectoration of mucus, and falling of strength (tabes mucosa). Attacks of spasmodic cough.1 Violent, intolerable stitches in the chest at each breathing; pain will not allow him to cough; there is no inflammatory fever (spurious pleurisy). Pain in the chest, on walking, as though the chest were to burst. Aching pain in the chest on breathing deep, and sneezing. Frequently a lightly oppressive pain in the chest; unless it passes away soon, it degenerates into the deepest dejection of spirits.2 Burning pain in the chest Frequent stitches in the chest, with or without cough. Acute pleurisy; there is great heat of the body, and stitches in the chest which prevent him from breathing; accompanied with hemoptysis and headache; he is confined to his bed. Night-mare; during the night he generally starts from an oppressive dream, but he is unable to stir, to call, to speak; and when he endeavours to move, he suffers intolerable pain, as though he were being torn.3 Displacement of breath with stitches in the chest, coming on at the slightest motion:4 he cannot advance a step, (pn...