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Excerpt from A Prize Essay on Diseases of the Chest
We will next consider pleuritis, it being the most regularly in order with the preceding. The varieties of acute and chronic will be discussed at considerable length and especially the chronic form of the disease, which is frequently overlooked, or not distinguished, until the tissue becomes either disorganized, or de praved in its action in an irreparable manner. This disease is often mistaken, and viewed as an affection ofthe liver, spleen, or lungs and sometimes from its insidious nature, so far neglected, as to be pronounced nervous or [slightly spasmodic. The other affections of the pulmonary organs will next be discussed. These are included under the heads of acute and chronic Pneu moniis this will comprehend all the morbid changes of the lungs, in the variety of diseases to which these organs are incident. We shall give the varieties, the symptoms, the diagnosis, the prognosis, termination, post mortcm appearances, causes, prevention and cure.
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