[18] Sir George Baker relates, in the second volume of the Medical Transactions, that Dr. Blanchard had informed him, that he had seen the consumption brought on ten persons out of ninety, by excessive purging used to prepare the body for the small-pox. I have seen a case of consumption in a youth of 17, from the spitting produced by the intemperate use of segars.
[19] Dr. Lind says, that out of 360 patients whom he attended between July 1st, 1758, and July 1st, 1760, in consumptions, the disease was brought on one fourth of them by falls, bruises, and strains, received a year or two before the disease made its appearance.
[20] Treatise of the Nature and Cure of Consumptions. Exercitation X.
[21] See Med. Com. Vol. II.
[22] Clinical and Anatomical Observations, p. 26, 27. See also Morgagni, letter xxii. 21.
[24] The three last-mentioned symptoms are taken notice of by Dr. Bennet, in his Treatise upon the Nature and Cure of the Consumption, as precursors of the disease. Dr. Boerhaave used to tell his pupils that they had never deceived him.
[25] I have seen the hoarseness in one case the first symptom of approaching consumption. In this symptom it preserves the analogy of pneumony, which often comes on with a hoarseness, and sometimes with paraphonia.
[26] Observations on Scrophulous Affections.