CONSUMPTION. 
fideration, the court are of opinion that the matter fuggefted tion, corruption, orabftya&tion, of that which would. other 
is not a good and fufficient gromne to ftop the proceedings wife {upport.the trength : of thebody. Itis dcfin 
below. Thus careful bas the law been, in compelling the ciation, without fever.”? Hence atrophia occurs in. hele: 
inferior cqurts to do ample td {peedy juitice 5 in preventing who have fuffered great evacuations, as from falivation, he- 
them from tranfgrefling their due bounds ; and in allowing’ morrhage, {weat, leucorrhea, &c.; in thole 
them the undifturbed cognizance of fuch canfes as by right, nutriment is abftracted in undue proportion to their ftrength 
founded on the ufage of the kingdom or act of are an and digeftive powers, as in nurfes fuckling ftout- children, 
. properly belong to their jurifdiction. Blackft..Com. S continuing them at the breaft too long; and in thofe 
Hits? ‘whofe nutriment is aa as the falt ee aie which 
° CONSUMMATE ESTATE. See TENANT by curiefy, excite feurvy. 
‘ CONSUMMATION, the énd, period, or completio For a view of the nature and requifite treatment. of the 
of any work—Thus, we fay, the confummation of. ali eae kitids of confumption, fee the following articles : 
things + meaning the end of the hci so the incarnation, Tases Mefenterica (or Mefenteric Confumption), and 
all the prophecies are to be confum Arropuy. Savage’s Nofol.‘ Method, Clafs'x. ord. 1. 
_ Confummation of marriage denotes She lait aft of mar- Colle 8 oh a Nofol. Clafs i. ‘ord, 4. and. Clafs ili. 
ment. 
CONSUMPTION, in Medicine, popularly aataeds de- Ge ONSUMPTION; nig ted the phihifis sulintnal of 
élin é, is a gen hal secon applied to different medical writers, from. 99: jay a é 1 corrumpo, confumo, # 
ver, 
fumption, as it were, of the fat and mufcular parts. From - in ce eee a ore ie lignative ae are jee 
whatever.caufe, therefore, the nutrition of the body isim- with diarrhcea, fuper 
peded, confumption will be the confequence. The nutri- ea difeafe the nee degree, and progrefs, of the 
tion o the ody ma be impeded fndtioes fome great in in- oms are extre mely various > in di erent : cafes. 
dige ftion ; or by defi ney of nutriment ; cr by great fhort cough, which is often little remarked by thofe affeted 
evacuations or. ser of blood, or Buide fecreted from with it, but eon ace onary a hag an occafional 
the blood. Pr is 
pat tient 
pro by” in nal Gate ‘Gentes ; ae Taft by the In this ftate he fometimes hers for a yéar, or even for 
delicacy, or the sbitrBion, or corruption, of nutritious two pene without making any complaint, excepting that 
ss e is-affeted by cold more readily than ufual, which fre-. 
Phthifis, flo, ‘igsying confumption in Seine i cache increales his cough, and‘ produces catarrh. his, 
eeaaaet to that fpecies which originates from difeafe 0 owever, is fometimes ‘relieved; is fuppofed to have arifen 
iungs: this form tee liner e! being the moft Aes from cold alone, and therefore gives no alarm either to the 
and fatal. It is efine d * emaciation, with heic ‘fever; , patient or to ae friends, nor leads them to take any precau- 
cough, and commonly with dukes expeGtoration.” The tion. But upon fome cccation of catching cold, as we com- 
emaciation is occafioned by - th e a in - yaaa mon aly f fpeak, ‘the ough becomes more confiderable ; is: Loe 
wae po 
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lungs are unable to carry on; and by the great eee are catarrh. ‘This may more aancaen attract at~ 
by expectoration, {weating, or aa which latter fre- tention, if the increafe and continuance of cough occur dur 
gently alters ate with each ot ing ca eed feafon , 
ich, in the Te atin — is eee ough, in man  infance, conudur: for a fae time 
on peied by co fa It is oe ed,.** eipaciation; ge blackith > or “plueith mucus, or oe oa aN phlegm ; ; the expece 
he@iic fever?” Any local difeafe. of long continuance, fuch toration being generally moft confiderable in the morning; 
as abfcefles, ulcers, &c. which excites a heétic fever, may in confequen ce of the accumulation of the matter during 
become the origin of a sabes. But the moft frequent occur- fleep. This matter kecomes by degrees more copious, more 
rence of tabes is obferved in fcrofulous habits, the {cro- vifcid, and more opake ; -at length of a yellow or greenifn 
fula béing always flow in its progrefs: and one of the colour, and of a pu urulerit appearance, iometimes Freaked 
mof common varieties of tabes arifes, where ferofula at- with blood. As thefe changes take place, and the cough © 
tacks.the glands of the mefeatery. In this cafe ethaciation increafes, the breathing at the fame time becomes more dif- 
‘is produced, not only by the difturbance of functions, and cult, and the emaciation and weaknefs go on alfo increaf- 
oy € 
condition of the mefenteric ie glans s, through which the cele. plies Anais doubtlefs an effe&t, the fex themfelves 
eannot be in. ole to ente the thoracic du&t, and thence are generally difpofed to believe to be the fole or principal 
rh d-veffe Is. 
to denote the ae emacaton and lofs o rength, which but pellet there ae a’ pain in one fide, fometimes dull 
is not. cecompened with c fever, nor originates from and oppreffive, fometimes fharp and fhooting, and fuch as 
any organic difeafe ; but Seen gic ees on the priva- to ae the perfon, from bying’ oe upon. that de. ae 
