San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-28
Written for the LIGHT.
PROTECTION
Against the pulmonary Phtisia'
and it's "DosimetriC Treat

Against the pulmonary Phtisia'
and it's "Dosimetric Treat
ment."
'The Pulmonary Phtisia," said
Pidou, "is the most complex and null
hilarious of chronic diseases" This
is without doubt an incontestable
fact. 1t is. So first, because the Phtisia
is a micrOblc disorder, so far unknown;
secondly, because this microbic Path
ogenia can assume multiple charac-
teristics, according as to the microbes
penetration in its tissue is direct and
primitive, that ls TO say, occurring III
a person enjoying good health and
very sound lungs; or if its penetra-
ton is indirect and consecutive only
in a morbid state of the lungs.
Consequently: as a direct and vir-
ulent cause, Phtisia can reach unex-
pectedly any person, whatever maybe
his state of health or physical and
moral situation.
AS an indirect cause, On the con-
trary, it can only reach those, who in
Pursuance of hereditary or aquired
dispositions or certain physiologic
troubles are panied in their lungs by
rising alteration.
In the first case, which happily is
very scarce, Phtisia appears in the
patient, in some measure perfected
at all points and ready to disturb
the whole organism.
In the second case, which appears
in larger numbers, Phtisia arises
more or less slowly, in manner of an
"autho-septicemia,n and we will see
farther, with regard to the "tubercu-
larry pathogenian how this auto sys-
ticemeia" grows up and strikes un-
doubtedly and fatally those, whose
tissues are more or less physiologic-
ally sick.
Why, in all those innumerable
cases, where Phtlsia arises by itself, its
course and symptoms will offer neces-
sarily as many varieties as there are
constitutions and different tempera-
ments.
Consequently, these varieties being
innumerable, it appears Phtisia will
offer characteristics and multiplied
forms, whose principal lines wewould
vance, only from general knowledge
OF the temperament submitted to the
auto-septicemic causes.
So 1T is certain if Phtisia will arise
without an apparent cause, from an or
ganism of mixed temreramentot offering
a depressed constitution or q herediCa-
ry predispOsitiOn, it will be common
Phtisia. y
If it will arise without predispOsi-
ton and inheritance, in consequence
of accidental causes or vacillany in
gestion, it will be acquired Phtisia.
If it will appear in an organism
constitutionaly or hereditary altered
by either, "arthritism" or "herpi- |
tism", with or without apparent de-
generacy, it will be either the Tar
thrice Phtisia" or the "herpitic
ohtisia."
If it will arise in commbody, here
ditary, scropulsns, it will be then,
the ''scropulsus Phtisla', also called |
the "caseaus Phtisia.N
At last, if it will arise in a quick |
manner and without warning, we |
will have to deal with the "acute" |
or "granulous Phtjsia". The knowl- |
edge of this 'autO-septicemia PathO- |
genian far from being a useless no
ton, will teach US, on the contrary, !
how the "Prophylania" grows up and |
is cured. Relatively with the "Pro-
phylania" specially it will be a valu-
able guide, and "Dosimetria" which |
is, above all, an initiatory and active
physic, will find in it very profitable
applications. Among it's fruitful con-
sequences there will be, to let US
keep, in the greatest proportion, the
celebrated Hypocrates aphOrism:
"Principiie obsta," a fundamental
principle of the "Dosimetria," which
only till now, was able to prove its
important value.