| Description Of Item | Contains 'Chronic and consecutive diseases of the pleura' with section on empyema; 'Pleuritis, Pleurisy' with nosology of pleurisy; and 'Pneumonia' with nosology of pneumonia. Also includes case note with post mortem on a patient, Allan McFie, with icteric pneumonia, 1864; 'A case of empyema in which the operation of paracentesis thoracis was performed followed by the insertion of a drainage tube' by Dr Fincham, 1862; and small cuttings on herpes in relation to pneumonia, thoracentesis, carbonate of ammonia in pneumonia, apparatus for extracting fluid from the cavity of the pleura, modus operandi of nitre tartar emetic and other remedies in thoracic inflammation, puerperal fetid pulmonary abscess, pneumonia in children, influence of age on mortality etc 1862-1873. |