A Case Wherein Part of the Lungs Were Coughed up. Presented to the Royal Society byWilliam Watson, F. R. S.Author(s): William WatsonSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 41 (1739 - 1741), pp. 623-624Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/104331 .

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xr. A Cafe twhereen f-Part of the LungsW evere coughed up. EPrefented to the ROY AL SOCIETY by William WatSon, P. R. S.

tilomvs Ha Ey, aged about 7o, of a Ihort Make, and pretey tat, being in a tolerably good State of

Health, (unteEs, as for fome Years pafi, troubled NSitn

frequent coughing upon Motion) was feized Sepr.

23. I740. with a violent Fit of Coughing, in x^llich he fell downj as the--By-Randers thou;,ht, dead, and diScharge* near a Quart of Blood at his Mouth} in a very large Strea;m, mlxed sx7ith many Portions of a fcemingly grunzous Matter His coughing Fit con- tinued near Three Minutes. He revived upon bleed4- int, at the Arm, and, being put to-bedX recosered his Sentes, and (as he faid3 xras perfeEtly eafy, and free from Pain, except upon Coughing, which as often as he did, he fpit Blood virlbly arterial from its florid Colour. About Four Hours after tlle Firkt Fit, he was taken witll a Second, attended with the fame Symptoms as the FirPc; and expired tn it. Upon examining the Blczod, -whnich he brought up at his Death, I foun-d, in Pieces of different Sizes, near Three Ounces of tlle SubRance of the Lungs, not ulcerated, or any ways diflempered ; and I llave Rea- fon to believe there was near the fame Quantity of the Lungs thrown up durint, the FirS Fit of Coughing. The Pieces were eafily difiinguifhable from ",rum-ous Blood , by their conneEti rxg Menzbran e, tlle Saini iru -i the interrlal Part, and their rpecific Gravity.

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[ X4 ] Upon exan;ning the Contents of the thorax

after Death, the Right Lobes of the Lurlgs were Sollnd, of a good Colour, and no-ways injuredW In the Left Cavity of the Shorvx, there was a large Quantity of extravafated Blood; tlle inferior Left Lobe adhered ftronc,ly both tO the Pleara and MediaSinSX and was romewhat deca.yed; but of the fuperior Left Lobe, the upper Part next the trshea adhercd to the SPZeara for about Two Inches; and the ReZ maindele, where tllere had been no AdheSlon, (as I could pcrceive frotn the fmooth Sutface of the TlegraJ was:torn away by Pieces, and diScharged-in Coughint,. As tlle greateR Part of the Lefe Side of the Lungs was tied down to tlle circumjacetlt Mem- ;branes, the Perfon beinr old, and the whole Force of the vParietus of the Sbdouneat rDiaphragm, &c ia the Ad:tion of cou^,lling, was unequally exerted upon that Part that did not adhcre, and wlich, by the ATiolence of tlle PreXure, was torn of from the refr, and diEcllarged, as I jaPr nonv mentioncd; it iS worthy Obfervation, honv Elnall the Degree of Senfw- bility is in the Lungs; tllat a Perfon fhovIld lofe fo much of thetr SubRance, as in this In(lance, upon the -Eirfi Fit; and yet, Ilpon Recovery of llis SenEes, tO somp]ain -of little or no Pain from filch Dilaceration, wllen evell<tllc Bite <3f an eInEed?c upon the Surface of tlle Body-is attended with CO much.

The Adhefon of this Masl's Lllnts explaixRed like- nvife the CauSe of his frequent Cougluing for-fome <Years-befoxe his Deathi

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