Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... amount of lung disease, with a very enfeebled system, is far more unfavourable than a somewhat larger amount of the former, with a moderately robust state of the latter. Whilst there are many cases in which the general health appears to be moderately good when the lung disease is far advanced, the general rule is to find the system injured whilst the lung disease is yet very limited, and hence, after having ascertained that the latter is restricted within the narrow limits already indicated as hopeful, the whole question of prognosis rests upon the state of the general system. CHAPTER XLV. PROGNOSIS. GENERAL AND NUMERICAL CONDITIONS. We purpose under this head to introduce a short summary of facts derived from a very extensive inquiry into the conditions which may be presumed to have modified the constitution of phthisical persons when in health, and to which reference has already been made in several parts of this work. The primary aspect of this inquiry is that of etiology, and had it been our purpose to have entered specially upon the causation of phthisis, we should doubtless have referred to the inquiry under that head, but as it has an important bearing upon prognosis in reference to the constitution of the patients, we purpose to insert the results in this place. We do not, however, intend to enter into much detail, since the computations were made only when this work was half through the press, and the subject has been treated at due length in a paper read before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society on March 20, 1826. The inquiry embraced 1000 patients, of whom 600 were males and 400 females, and extended over several years. It was altogether made by ourself, and the diagnosis of phthisis in a marked stage of consolidation or of destruction was made by ...
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