Pleurisy - Victorian Health and Medicine

Pleurisy - Victorian Medicine

Pleurisy - Victorian Health and Medicine

From 'The Dictionary of Daily Wants' - 1858-1859

PLEURISY. - Inflammation of the lining membrane of the chest, or the pleura as it is called.

This disease is so analogous to inflammation of the substance of the lungs, or pneumonia, as to be a matter of difficulty for medical men sometimes to detect the difference; and as the treatment is almost the same, the two diseases will be treated under one head: see PNEUMONIA.

The only special peculiarity in pleurisy is that being an inflammation of a serious membrane, the pain is more acute, and the pulse harder and sharper than in the corresponding disease of the substance of the lungs, where the pain is deeper, the breathing more oppressed and the pulse fuller and softer, than in pleurisy.

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