212 PLEURISY. 



LET, who tells you, '' Gibson says the pkii-^ 

 *^ mj/ is an inflammation of the pleura ;" but, 

 as '' no ghost need come from the grave to 

 '' tell us that/' we will go a little farther, 

 and, instead of diversifying and mutilating 

 the symptoms to form a deceptive appear- 

 ance of two distinct diseases, I shall clearly 

 prove them to be not only of the samefa^ 

 mily, but very nearly related ; for, as the 

 ■pleura is in the medical world universally 

 known to be the membrane immediately co- 

 vering the lungs, every reader may instantly 

 form his own judgment whether the lattei* 

 can become the principal seat of inflamma- 

 tion without \\ie pleura sh€\\\^ proportionally 

 affected by the distention. I have not the 

 least doubt but this tliem will sufficiently 

 establish its own weight, to prevent a diver- 

 sity of opinions. \ 



To exclude occasion for more medical or 

 anatomical definitions than are absolutely 

 unavoidable, it must suffice to say, the dis- 

 tinction between the diseases are too nice 

 (in this animal) for certain discriminations ; 

 tither displays symptoms common to both ; 

 and, as the treatment is exactly similar in 



