The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Etc., Etc, 1. köideSir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly, Robley Dunglison Lea and Blanchard, 1848 |
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abdomen abscess acid action acute amaurosis anasarca aneurism angina aorta apoplexy appear applied arteries ascites asphyxia asthma attack auscultation become bladder blood bloodletting body bowels brain bronchi bronchial bronchitis calculi calomel catarrh cause cavity cerebral chest cholera chronic circulation circumstances clavicles cold colour congestion consequence considerable degree dilatation disease disorder doses dropsy dyspnoea effects effusion employed exciting exists expectoration extremely fatal fever fibrin fluid frequently functions heart hemorrhage increased induced inflammation inflammatory instances intestines irritation kind Laennec less lungs matter medicine ment morbid mucous membrane muscles muscular nature nerves nervous observed occasionally occur operation organs pain paroxysm patient peculiar percussion practice practitioner produced proportion pulmonary pulse purgatives quantity remarkable remedy respiration rhonchus serous skin softening sometimes sound spasm stomach substance surface symptoms takes place temperature tion treatment tumour uric acid urine usually uterus vascular vessels warm bath
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Page 250 - ... mucous rhonchus; the kind more strictly sibilous is probably occasioned rather by a local contraction of the smaller bronchi from thickening of their inner membrane. 5. The Dry Crepitous Rhonchus, with Large Bubbles. — This species is observed only during inspiration. It conveys the impression as of air entering and distending lungs which had been dried, — and of which the cells had been very unequally dilated, — and entirely resembles the sound produced by blowing into a dried bladder.
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