Symptoms Of Acute Pleurisy

Commence with shivering, with slight spasms and sweats. Inspiration short, unequal, and interrupted, as from pain; expiration full; air expired not hotter than usual. Slight cough only, and without expectoration. Pulse quick, small, and wiry.

The Stethoscope gives the usual respiratory murmur, accompanied with a rubbing sound in the parts attached.

Percussion elicits at first little or no deviation from the natural sound; after effusion has taken place there is a dull sound.

Disease Terminates in a gradual disappearance of the symptoms, or in the effusion of fluid (pus or lymph).

Symptoms Of Chronic Pleurisy

Inspiration always deep; expiration short. Cough dry, sometimes with expectoration; frequently changing from dry to moist cough.

Stethoscope indicates an absence of respiratory murmur in the lower parts of the chest, and sometimes a gurgling noise. Strong respiratory murmur in the superior portion of the lung, very often of one side only.

Terminates either by cure or by effusion and infiltration of the whole of the cellular membrane of the chest and belly, and sometimes of the scrotum and thighs: at last the serum in the thorax presses upon the lungs till it causes suffocation.