THORACENTESIS IN PHTHISIS.

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 ...

An Epidemic of Phthisis

Reexpansion pulmonary edema following thoracentesis.

Case Report An 89-year-old gentleman with a past medical history significant for severe aortic stenosis and atrial fibrillation on warfarin therapy presented to the Providence VA Medical Center for placement of a right-sided chest tube. Several weeks prior, the patient had fallen at home and developed a hemothorax after sustaining several rib fractures. At the time of his fall, he had undergone...