Alcoholic Lotion in Phthisis Pulmonalis

A Case of Phthisis Pulmonalis; with Remarks

Truncus solitarius pulmonalis.

Truncus solitarius pulmonalis is a rare anomaly of the heart. Fifteen cases have been described since I814, some of which cannot be verified at this distance. The deformity, which is a variant of the hypoplastic left heart syndrome, is identified by the absence of coronary ostia in the sinuses of the valve of the truncus and by an atretic aorta which appears to be an anomalous coronary artery.

Laryngeal Phthisis

? graph has been brought out, enlarged and ?rewritten, by Mr. Harold Bar well, owing to Mr. -Lake having given up the practice of Laryngology to pursue that of Otologj'. It is based upon an experience of G50 cases of the disease observed principally at the Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption in London. The etiology, patholog}7, symptoms, differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the ...

Phthisis in Famine

In 459 consecutive autopsies made during the Madras Famine of 1877-78, tubercular deposit was found in one or both lungs in thirty men, 13*3 per cent., twenty women, 12*8 per cent., and in one child. The deposit was present in both lungs in eighteen of the men aud in sixteen of the women, was confined to the right lung in three of the men, the child, and three of the women, and to the left lung...

Ophthalmic Reaction in Early Phthisis

Sepoy Man Bahadur, No. 726/8, of the Myitkyina Military Police Battalion, has been under in}' observation for nca.ly 18 months, and from the very beginning tubercle of the lung has been suspected. In the early part of 1908 when he first came under observation he had no physical signs of phthisis; lie was, however, losing flesh, had a slight cough and is said to have spat some blood. His sputum ...