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W.Y SINCE the time when L SOC attention to the peculiar characters of gangrene of the lungs, a considerable number of instances of that lesion have been recorded by Schroeder, Lorinser, Dr Bright, Andral, and Cruveilhier. It is nevertheless a disease, the presence of which it is difficult to distinguish in the early stage from that of other diseases of the lungs; its determining causes are totally unknown; and it is not known that in any genuine instance of it the patient has made a recovery. During the last six months three cases of this lesion have fallen under my own observation; and I think they are sufficiently important to deserve being recorded. I shall premise one case which fell under my observation in the spring of 1837. CASE I.-Mary Goodall, aged 24, was admitted into the Royal Infirmary on Thursday the 16th of February 1837, in consequence of symptoms indicating affection of the brain and lungs. She stated that she had lately recovered from an attack of influenza, and that on Thursday last, the 9th of February, she was attacked with pain in both temples, which gradually increased in VOL. LVI. NO. 148. A severity. This pain, however, was not at all times equally severe, and sometimes she represented it to be merely a dull sense of uneasiness. She had not suffered any pain in the epigastric region, but she had vomiting taking place early in the morning. The skin presented no eruption. She had little thirst; the tongue was covered with a viscid whitish-gray fur; and the bowels were stated to be confined. She believed herself to be in the sixth month of pregnancy. At admission, the pain of the head, and especially in each temple, continued; but the eyes were not injected, nor the temporal arteries distended. The expression of the countenance was heavy and listless, the eyes heavy and languid, and the aspect that of a person who did not readily comprehend questions, and who seemed to be wakened out of sleep. There was slight cough, with puriform expectoration; the respiration was hurried, 28 in the minute, and accompanied with large moist rattling in the right mammary region. The sound elicited by percussion was neither unusually dull nor clear. In both subclavicular regions was a good deal of bronchophony, with marked resonance of the voice, amounting under the right clavicle nearly to pectoriloquy. The action of the heart was natural, from 68 to 70 in the minute. Two compound colocynth pills were ordered, and afterwards a dose of the saline infusion of senna. 17th, Next day the cough was not complained of, but expectoration of the same character continued. The pulse was 72. The bowels had not been opened. Two scruples of the compound rhubarb powder in peppermint-water were given, and afterwards one ounce of castor-oil. 18th. Expectoration of dense opaque puriform matter continued. The headach had interrupted sleep, and continued more severely than yesterday. Both draughts were rejected by vomiting; she had some sickness and vomiting in the morning; no motion took place, nor did any effect follow the use of an enema. The tongue was covered with a whitish fur; the pulse continued at 68; the voice was strongly resonant, especially in the left scapular region; the respiration was bronchial, but without rattle or wheezing. In the right submammary region the moist crepitating rattle was still audible. Eight leeches were applied to each temple; a purgative enema was ordered to be administered; and afterwards one blue pill and two colocynth pills were to be given and repeated in the course of two hours. 19th. The leeches bled freely, and the pain of the frontal region speedily underwent abatement. Three motions took place; the vomiting did not return; the tongue, however, was covered with a dry fur; the pulse was 68, rather feeble; and the extremities |