ISBN: 9781155060507

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...the patient''s strength enable us to determine, a considerable time before death, that a fatal result is inevitable, and it is in such cases that we are tempted and have the right to claim assistance, by means of surgical interference, for the following reason: The decomposing contents of such cavities, whether gangrenous fluid or ichorous pus, cause the progressive destruction of the lung tissue in loco, namely, the increase in size of the cavities, as well as the general poisoning of the organism by absorption, with rise in temperature and decrease in strength. Besides this, the poisonous contents of the cavities are apt at any time, by aspiration through the bronchial tubes, to give rise to purulent bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, or pleurisy in distant parts of the lungs. Any of these complications may at any time cause a sudden fatal termination before the time at which the gangrene or pulmonary abscess would come to its natural termination by exhaustion. From the above considerations we are justified in desiring and attempting to evacuate the contents of such cavities, and, in so doing, to expect not only to arrest the progress of the disease and avoid the complications from distant parts of the lungs, but also to cause the closure of the cavities so as to effect a definite cure. The number of cases of acute cavities in the lungs in which surgical interference has been resorted to is as yet very limited, only six cases having been reported, and these within the last three years. Of these six cases only one, our own case, was successful, in so far that it terminated in a complete recovery. But even from some of the cases that terminated fatally it was seen that immediate relief and temporary improvement in the patient''s condition... Christian Fenger, Books, History, The Collected Works of Christian Fenger, M.D., 1840-1902 Volume 1 Books>History <

ISBN: 9781155060507

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