It has proved, and has taught everybody to see the proof, that the sputa of phthisical patients are the chief cause of the dissemination of the disease.
Lalesque failed to isolate it from the dry soil surrounding some garden seats in a locality frequented by phthisical patients.
This species occurs in phthisical cavities and in certain suppurations in the region of the face.
Schottelius[92] has observed that tubercle bacilli taken from the lung of phthisical persons buried for years still retains its virulence and capability of producing tuberculosis upon inoculation.
Arthur Ransome[95a] has laid down five axioms of hygiene for phthisical patients which, if followed, would materially improve the condition of such persons.
This latter is particularly inimical to phthisical sufferers.
It was found in miliary tubercles of the lung, cerebral and intestinal tubercle, cheesy bronchitis and pneumonia, phthisical sputa, scrofulous glands, and fungous inflammation of the joints.
This is demonstrated by study of the degeneracy stigmata of phthisical families.
The males much exceed the females in number, yet there did not appear to be any exception to their favour in the transmission of the phthisical taint, except that they attained in general a greater age before they died.
Some phthisical sufferers, of whom there are here, alas!
That it eases phthisical cough there can be no doubt; in fact, some of the patients scarcely took their cough mixtures at all--an unmixed boon to phthisical sufferers with delicate stomachs.
I will continue the research by careful weighings of early cases; and will further endeavor to ascertain whether the addition of mullein to the cultivating solution prevents the propagation of the phthisical bacillus.
Its power of checking phthisical looseness of the bowels was very marked, and experiment proved that this was not merely due to the well known astringent properties of boiled milk.
A phthisical lung, grey nodules being scattered here and there almost exactly simulating tuberculous nodules.
The type of sanatorium to be recommended for phthisical patients is still much debated.
In phthisical affections it is given by inhalation (about 2 oz.
Richardson mentions the immunity of the Jewish race from tubercular disease, and notices the well-known relation existing between a syphilitic taint and a phthisical tendency.
I may add here, that it has appeared to me that young persons withphthisical tendencies are specially liable to neuralgic affections as a consequence of self-abuse.
The subjects are generally women; they are mostly of that class of phthisical patients who have a quick intelligence, fine soft hair, and a sanguine temperament.
After exertion Jurine, Guyton, and Driessen observed luminous urine passed by healthy persons, and Nasse mentions the same phenomenon in a phthisical patient.
In the convalescence, the lungs were affected, he coughed, and in expectoration raised great quantities of phlegm, and really resembled a phthisical patient.
If the sputum of a phthisical patient be submitted to the skilled microscopist, he is nearly always able to demonstrate bacilli, but this goes for very little.
Well, suppose we were to inject sputum from a phthisical person into the lower animal and tuberculosis follows, and then announce to the profession that we have demonstrated the relation of the cause and effect between bacilli and phthisis?
No bacilli have appeared in their sputum for the past three months, and their phthisical symptoms have gradually and completely disappeared.
These miliary aneurisms in the floor of gastric ulcers seem to be analogous to those in the walls of phthisical cavities.
It is often associated with phthisis, and is sometimes found in phthisical subjects prior to the detection of the pulmonary disease.
As a part of the phthisical process in diabetes, cavities of various sizes are found and gangrene of the lungs has been observed.
In phthisical cases the sensation is rather that of rawness of the oesophagus and stomach.
Fistula is quite common among the phthisical as a result of malnutrition and septicaemia, aided by the constant succussion of the perineum produced by efforts at coughing.
Wherever scrofulous and phthisical diseases are known, there also are found cases of tabes mesenterica.
It is probable that the lowered vitality of phthisical patients increases somewhat their liability to gastric ulcer.
In our cities, not one phthisical invalid in ten, especially among women, can command facilities for daily horseback-riding, still less can they take long journeys.
The non-professional notion respecting the curative powers of climate is, that by breathing a mild and soothing atmosphere, the phthisical patient withdraws irritation, and leaves nature at liberty to effect her own cure.
Malta is a famous resort for phthisical patients, although during the winter and spring the weather is cold and variable, and in autumn the sirocco is frequent.
The remainder of the Pleasant or Not Unpleasant Group as originally constituted consists of VII, a phthisicalcase (cf.
Now thisphthisical type is very common with us indeed, and it appears to be an innate variation to which our race is liable.
The phthisical are attractive in personal appearance on account of their rich skin and hair colouring and their frequent brightness and vivacity, and their obvious delicacy also elicits a feeling of pity and wish to protect them.
A phthisical type of person is one who comes of a family liable to fall a prey to this microbe, and he is recognisable by many distinctive characteristics of hair and complexion, and by qualities of temperament, feature, and figure.
It's likely to, where there is the least phthisical tendency.
Portions of cigar-stumps smoked by phthisical persons in whose saliva the tubercle bacillus was known to be abundantly present were inoculated into guinea-pigs, with the result that fifty per cent.
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