It reacts equally well in the healthy, vigorous subject who at one time has had a mild tuberculosis and recovered, in the patient with early phthisis and in the advanced case.
It is applicable not only inphthisis but in bronchiectasis, bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, lobar pneumonia and all other bacterial lung diseases.
I am inclined to think that self-abuse was the principal cause both of the phthisis and the neuralgia, acting doubtless on a predisposed organism, for his family was rather specially beset with tendencies to consumption.
Family medical history scanty and imperfect; but, as far as it goes, entirely without evidence of either phthisis or neuroses.
Churchill conceived the theory that phthisis is caused by a lack of oxygen in the tissues; he therefore sought an agent capable of increasing oxidation.
To the question, "Is not Phthisis very common among the slaves of the slave States and unknown among the native Africans at home?
The study of such opposite organizations, the one prone to Phthisis and the other not, can not fail to throw some light on tubercular disease, the subject of your correspondent, Dr.
The great prevalence of phthisis that used to prevail, not only in our army, but in the principal European ones, has been clearly shown to have been referable to the overcrowding and defective ventilation of the barracks.
It has lately come into use as a remedy for phthisis and general debility.
After these statements we shall be prepared to find that indoor trades and occupations swell the bills of mortality from phthisis much more than those carried on in the open air.
That this is the case is shown by the following table:-- Deaths from Phthisisat Victoria Park Hospital, showing the influence of Occupation.
As allied to this portion of the question may be mentioned the opinion of some pathologist, that phthisis may be either caused or promoted by habitual drunkenness; and that a drunkard may transmit it to his offspring.
Thus, it is that phthisis attacks monkeys when shut up in badly ventilated buildings, and cows confined in close sheds.
Phthisis seems to be a malady peculiar to temperate climates.
At the present time, owing to those hygienic improvements, the mortality from phthisis is not more than half what it was in our army prior to 1867.
In pulmonaryphthisis there is a deficiency of fat in the system.
So are Ague and Phthisis; and persons who have had Ague are said to be less liable to Phthisis than others.
Liebig's idea that there is in Phthisis an excess of Oxygen in the system, would, if sufficiently supported, serve to explain its action when considered simply as oil.
The application of oily substances to the cure of Phthisis is a matter of considerable importance.
It contains Iodine and Bromine, which are useful as Alteratives or blood medicines, both in Phthisis and Scrofula.
But symptoms of pulmonary phthisis brought his academic life to a close, and in the hope that the sea might benefit his health he joined the medical department of the navy in 1848.
Fortunately this humour was not acrid or salt; if it were, phthisis must at once supervene.
It is not wonderful that the Archbishop, who doubtless heard all about Cardan's asserted cure of phthisis from Cassanate, should have been eager to submit his asthma to Cardan's skill.
One Hala shortly afterwards followed Falcutius to the grave, having fallen sick with phthisis immediately after the trial.
But the seeds of phthisis lay deep down beneath this fair show of life and strength; the shock of sorrow which she experienced for her brother's death developed them with alarming rapidity.
From the cases above reported, it must be evident, that black phthisis is the result of foreign matter inhaled and retained within the pulmonary structure.
Tubercular phthisis is not at all prevalent in any collier community with which I am acquainted, only occasional cases occurring, and that amongst females.
It is very evident that the disease there considered is produced by carbonaceous inhalation, and resembles in all its features the black phthisis so general amongst the colliers in Haddingtonshire.
And I tell you," said the doctor, stoutly, "that your death from phthisis might not have occurred for ten years to come.
Similarly favourable changes are observed for a time in severe structural diseases of certain organs: the fact of well-marked phthisis apparently disappearing whilst pregnancy lasts, is well known.
Thousands, whose maladies have been pronounced genuine Tubercular Pulmonary Consumption, (Phthisis Pulmonalis) by eminent physicians have been perfectly and permanently cured by the use of Dr.
Because bacilli are found in phthisis, it is no more certain that they are the cause of phthisis than it is certain that cheese mites are the cause of cheese.
It is a proper material now for inoculation, and if we inoculate some of the lower animals, for instance the monkey, we produce a disease identical with phthisis pulmpnalis.
From my own experience I can affirm, that insane persons are as liable to Phthisis Pulmonalis as others, that numbers of them die of that disease; and that I never saw any abatement of the maniacal symptoms through the progress of consumption.
In flatulence and dyspepsia, and diluted with water as a drink, to lessen the nightsweats in phthisis and fever, and to stop the secretion of milk after weaning.
This is a very important fact in the pathology of phthisis, as tending to prove that although phthisis is in many instances distinctly hereditary, nevertheless it may be, and is, frequently acquired.
I say nothing of his Researches on Phthisis or his great work on Typhoid Fever.
A patient comes to you with asthma and wants to know where he can breathe; another comes to you with phthisis and wants to know where he can live.
Pulmonary phthisis is a combination of multifarious variable phenomena, and not a morbid unity.
Phthisis Pulmonalis is consumption of the lungs, which is the common acceptation of the term consumption.
Phthisis should never be left to itself, but always treated as stated above.
But this decline is apparently less marked in tabes than in phthisis or tubercular meningitis, i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phthisis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
