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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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