Excerpt from A Manual of Medical Treatment, or Clinical Therapeutics, Vol. 2 of 2 It is in the nature of pulmonary tuberculosis, if unchecked, to cause progressive destruction of the organ it attacks. If any portion of the structure of the adult lung is destroyed, as Virchow pointed out, it can never be restored to its former state of integrity. If a large. Portion is destroyed, it must e1 er remain ao. It is clear, then, that the restor ation of a lung to its former state of integrity in a case of pulmonary tuberculosis ...
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Excerpt from A Manual of Medical Treatment, or Clinical Therapeutics, Vol. 2 of 2 It is in the nature of pulmonary tuberculosis, if unchecked, to cause progressive destruction of the organ it attacks. If any portion of the structure of the adult lung is destroyed, as Virchow pointed out, it can never be restored to its former state of integrity. If a large. Portion is destroyed, it must e1 er remain ao. It is clear, then, that the restor ation of a lung to its former state of integrity in a case of pulmonary tuberculosis must he of rare occurrence, and if we are to cure phthisis, in the generally accepted sense of the word cure, we must, whatever our remedy may be, treat it in its earliest stage, before it has led to any considerable destruction of lung tissue; but we may arrest the course of the disease, and so remedy cases, even when the disease is somewhat advanced, and subsequent retrogressive and protective anatomical changes in the lungs may restore the patient to a fairly active and useful life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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