TEN CASES OF PHTHISIS.

Significance of Hoarseness and Aphonia in Cases of Pulmonary Phthisis

It is a well recognised fact that hoarseness and aphonia are, in a certain proportion of all cases of pulmonary phthisis, added to the usual symptoms of the latter disease. Hoarseness is more commonly met with in lung disease than aphonia; in fact, the latter may be said to be decidedly rare. Having had opportunities of examining a great many cases of lung consumption in which one or other of t...

Notes on Cases of Phthisis Treated with Parenteral Gold

The man was very emaciated and weighed 8 st. 13 lb. He had crepitations on the upper zones of the lungs on both sides, more on the left and there was congestion of the throat. He was placed on ' home sanatorium' regime and a total of 3.2 gm. of myocrysin was given at weekly intervals in accordance with the dosage table Spry in the Indian Medical Gazette, 1939, Vol. LXX ' p. 328. The urine remai...

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 ...

An Epidemic of Phthisis

Isotopic exploration of hepatic hydrothorax: ten cases.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the performance of peritoneal scintigraphy for the diagnosis of peritoneopleural communication in patients with cirrhosis and to discuss its role in therapeutic management. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients with cirrhosis and pleural effusion were included in this study. Cirrhosis was due to viral hepatitis in eight patients, auto-...