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He was the first person to recognize that the skin ulcers caused by scrofula resembled tubercles seen in phthisis, [48] noting that "phthisis is the scrofula of the lung" in his book Opera Medica, published posthumously in 1679.
Phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, great white plague: Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrow-heads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows. Specialty: Infectious disease, pulmonology: Symptoms: Chronic cough, fever, cough with bloody mucus, weight loss [1 ...
He had two younger brothers, James Irwin Lee (1843–1880) and John Francis Lee (1850–1905), both of whom graduated from the University of Cambridge.
The Suśruta-Saṃhitā is divided into two parts: the first five books (Skt. Sthanas) ... phthisis, gulma, heart disease, jaundice, hemorrhage, alcoholism, ...
During the early part of the century, Schrön claimed that there were pathological differences between tuberculosis and lung phthisis, asserting the existence of a phthisiogenous microbe. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] For his accomplishments in his work against cholera , typhoid and other infectious diseases, in 1863 he was proclaimed "Cholera-Kommissar" in ...
Physis (/ ˈ f aɪ ˈ s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: φύσις; pl. physeis, φύσεις) is a Greek philosophical, theological, and scientific term, usually translated into English—according to its Latin translation "natura"—as "nature".
The term derives from the designation by Hippocrates of phthisis (Greek φθίσις) meaning "consumption". References