On the Treatment of Phthisis Pulmonalis

Abstract

In my former communication I endeavoured to show, that phthisis pulmonalis originated in a derangement of the digestive organs, which materially interfered with a healthy formation of blood, and the nutrition of the body; that, under such circumstances, exudations of a tubercular character were very liable to be poured into the lungs, which presented a great tendency to disintegrate and produce ulcerations in those organs, and that a rational treatment must be