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Origin and Cause of the Disease.-Pulmonary Consumption is a hereditary disease, or rather, it arises from a scrofular diatheses, called by Laennec,* "The development in the lungs of a particular species of Accidental Production." By accidental production, he means that predisposition to consumption which is inherited from consumptive parents, or, the existence even, of what has been called tubercles in the lungs. This production, or predisposition, or tubercles, is developed by colds, inflammation of the lungs, pleurisy, eruptive fevers, unhealthy localities, intemperance in eating and drinking, suppression of any natural evacuations, constitutional syphilis, insufflcient clothing and undue exposure, neglect of exercise, abuse of mercury and other medicines, excessive mental exertion, various kinds of mechanical labor, such as the manufacture of needles, filing of iron, laboring in cotton and other manufactories where much of the dust must be inhaled, a stooping position of the body, either in sitting or walking, unnatural compresses about the chest, long and excessively loud speaking, playing on wind instruments, &c. &c. There are many diseases accompanied by cough, expectoration, emaciation, and hectic fever, which are not, properly, Pul * M. Laennec, who did more in exploring this disease than any one of his age, was born in Lower Brittany, Feb. 17, 1781, and died August 13, 1826, of pulmonary consumption, a victim to the disease which he had spent most of his life in exploring. It is a singular fact that so many eminent physicians, who have made consumption a peculiar study, should have died of the disease-as was the case with Laennec, and Armstrong, and Benjamin Lincoln, of this country, lecturer in the Medical School of Vermont, and many others. monary Consumption, though they have been mistaken for genuine Phthisis, or consumption. Consumption usually approaches insidiously upon young persons of "light hair, fair skin, blue eyes, florid complexion, contracted chest, and high shoulders." They are generally, (though not always) descendants of those who have fallen victims to the same disease. The first ostensible sign of the disease is a short, dry cough, much resembling a common cold. Until recently, it has been extremely difficult for the physician to arrive at a decisive prognostication of this disease in its incipient stage, as the cough, though somewhat peculiar, is not a sure criterion, and as the expectoration at first does not vary from the usual kind, pus not being expectorated till the disease has made considerable progress. But, in the present improved state of medical science, aided by what physicians call Physical Signs, that is, by the application of the ear and instruments to the chest of the patient, the existence of true consumption can be readily ascertained by the skilful practitioner; and, had he an opportunity of examining consumptive patients earlier than he usually has, he might be of much more service to them than he often is. A patient in true pulmonary consumption presents a picture at once deeply interesting and exceedingly distressing. The symptoms are well described by a physician who lived several centuries ago, and are the following: "As soon as the hectic fever is established, wasting of the body becomes manifest, the cough, expectoration, perspiration, and diarrhoea, are most abundant. The nose becomes sharp and drawn; the cheeks prominent and red-and appear redder by contrast with the surrounding paleness; the conjunctiva of the eyes is of a shining white, or, with a shade of pearl blue; the cheeks are hollow; the lips are retracted and seem moulded into a bitter smile; the neck is oblique and impeded in its movements; the shoulder blades are projecting and winged; the ribs become prominent, and the intercostal spaces sink in; the nails become incurvated, and the large joints of the fingers more prominent." These are the marked symptoms of the disease in its worst farm. I have often looked upon patients thus wasting, with the deppest anxiety, and feelings bordering upon melancholy. I cannot help calling to mind the following language of Dr. James Johnson, "When phthisis is regularly established, it forms one of the most distressing pictures which the human frame exhibits in its progress to corruption! The hectic flush on the cheeks, the vermilion lips, the burning heat in the palms of the hands rdices of the feet, with evening fever, are periodically changed for cold colliquative sweats, hollow, pale, languid countenance, sharpening features, augmented expectoration, and progressive emaciation! Such is the series of heart-rending symptoms which are daily presented to their agonized friends, whose distress is heightened by the never-dying hopes which perpetually spring in the hectic breast! Whether it is that the delicate organization which predisposes to the destructive disease contributes to amiability of temper and sweetness of disposition, is doubtful; but certain it is, that the malady in question falls in general on the best, as well as the loveliest part of creation." The number of deaths from consumption in Boston, the past year, as stated in the City Register, was four hundred and thirtysix. This is a large increase upon preceding years. In the city of New York, during the first two weeks of December last, there were sixty-seven deaths from consumption, as stated in the Medical and Surgical Reporter of that city. To consumption, Sydenham said, two-thirds of those who died of chronic diseases in Great Britain, fell victims. Drs. J. Johnson, Heberden, Young and Abercrombie say about one in four or five of all the deaths that happen in England are from consumption. Laennec says, "in Paris, and the great cities in the interior of France, the proportion of deaths from this disease is one in four or five." In New England the proportion is about one in four or five; probably as much as one in four in Boston. It is less prevalent in more northern latitudes, as Russia, Canada, and among the Alps in Switzerland, where the winters are long and severe, and there are few sudden changes. By an examination of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, in which the deaths in Boston are reported weekly, I find, on an average for several years past, about three hundred have died annually by this disease. Much more might be said of the causes and symptoms of consumption, but in treating of the prevention of this disease, we must necessarily speak particularly of its causes, in order to point out the course to be pursued to avoid its development, and more or less will be said of the symptoms accompanying its progress; therefore we will say no more of its cause in this place. The predisposition to consumption, or what is called its hereditary cause, is not under the control of man. But, if the disease can be delayed and finally deferred, (as it is believed it can, by the use of proper means), this predisposition will be lessened in every succeeding generation, until the dreadful scourge, instead of committing greater ravages, year by year, as has been the case in our country, will be nearly averted. To aid in accomplishing such an object is the design of this work. But |