Plain home talk about the human system-the habits of men and women-the cause and prevention of disease-our sexual relations and social natures (1896) (14577692248)

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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)

Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage

Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e else than inhalants and expectorants. In this, as indiseases of the head and throat, the predisposing cause is apt to beoverlooked. Bronchitis has it* root in an impure condition of the15* 346 CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE BREATHING ORGANS. blood. Some imprudence or unavoidable exposure may have broughton the difficulty, but if it does not pass off readily with the coldwhich ushered it in, doubt should not exist for a moment that theblood of the patient is mainly at fault. When this disease firstmakes its appearance, it usually presents the acute form, and isattended with a dry cough, showing a preponderance of the posi-tive fluids; but when it becomes chronic, excessive expectorationensues, evincing an entire inversion of the disease, and a preponder-ance of the negative alkaline fluids. Unless checked or cured in season, bronchitis not unfrequentlyleads to diseases of the lungs. As will be observed in Fig. 89,the bronchial tubes are extensively distributed in the lungs for the Fisr. S9.

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WIND PIPE OR BRONCHUS AND BRONCHIAL TUBES, AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS IN THELUNGS, SHOWING THEIR INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH BLOOD-VESSELS PROM THE HEART. purpose of conducting the air to the vesicles, and when inflamma-tion exists in the former, it is very easy for it to extend to the latter. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. 347 Every person has doubtless noticed how inflammation in the fingeror hand, produced by soreness or accidental causes, will frequentlycommunicate to the arm, and gradually extend toward the shoulderuntil the whole arm becomes affected. Now the bronchial tubesare as closely allied to the lungs as the hand to the arm, and theinflammation affecting one, will very soon affect both unless timelyattended to. Bronchitis is often mistaken for consumption. It sometimes pre-sents all the symptoms of lung disease, so much so, that physiciansnot familiar with pulmonary diseases diagnose it incorrectly, muchto the discomfort of the patient. There is one rule, however, whichin most cases is rel

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