PART III. 



CHAPTER 22. 



ACUTE DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. 



407. Of the organs of Respiration . 408. Nature of the diseases affecting 

 the organs of Respiration. 409. Causes. 410. COUGHS. Cause of Coughs. 

 411. Distinctive signs of different sorts of Cough. 412. CATARRH OR 

 COMMON COLD. Nature of Catarrh. 413. Causes. 414. Symptoms. 

 415. Treatment. 416. LARYNGITIS AND SORE THROAT. Seat and 

 nature. 417. Causes. 418. Symptoms. 419. Treatment. 420. Further 

 treatment. 421. Signs of recovery. 422. After-treatment. 423. BRON- 

 CHITIS, PNEUMONIA, PLEURITIS, AND PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Structure 

 of the organs affected. 424. Structure of the Lungs and Bronchise. 425. 

 Structure of the Pleurze. 426 Different seats of disease. 427. Certain 

 formations of Chest predisposed to disease. 428. BRONCHITIS. Nature, 

 seat, and Causes. 429. Treatment. 430. Signs of recovery. 431. After- 

 treatment. 432. PNEUMONIA. Seat and symptoms. 433. Subsidence of 

 the attack. 434. Increase of the attack. 435. PLEURITIS OR PLEURISY 

 Nature and seat. 436. Symptoms. 437. Subsidence of attack. 438. In- 

 crease of attack. 439. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Nature, seat, and causes. 

 440. Symptoms. 441. TREATMENT OP PNEUMONIA, PLEURITIS, AND 

 PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Treatment of the premonitory symptoms. 442. 

 Treatment of the attack. 443. Another mode of treatment. 444. Un- 

 favorable terminations. 445. Effusion. 446. Exudation and organisation 

 of Lymph. 447. Suppuration and formation of Abscesses. 448. Gangrene 

 and Mortification. 449. After-treatment. 



407. Of the organs of Respiration. 



No class of organs in the body is of more importance than those which 

 are connected with the functions of Respiration. None, moreover, are 

 more liable to sudden and serious disease. 



The proper breathing organs are the lungs and bronchi. The sub- 

 Jjjdiarv organs are the nasal passages, the larvnx, and the trachea.. 



