The medical examination for life insurance and its associated clinical methods : with chapters on the insurance of substandard lives and accident insurance . art of the lungs indicates either the interposition of somesubsl n the lung and the chest or an obstruction in one ^\ the bronchial trunks. Pleurisy with effusion, pleuralgrowths, or thickening represenl the former, and massive pneu-monia, pressure of growths or aneurysm, oi ion by foibodies, the latter. Suppressed breathing is common at the 2So Till-] MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR LIFE INSURANCE. Kalse vs. true. in incipient phthisis, and in a
The medical examination for life insurance and its associated clinical methods : with chapters on the insurance of substandard lives and accident insurance . art of the lungs indicates either the interposition of somesubsl n the lung and the chest or an obstruction in one ^\ the bronchial trunks. Pleurisy with effusion, pleuralgrowths, or thickening represenl the former, and massive pneu-monia, pressure of growths or aneurysm, oi ion by foibodies, the latter. Suppressed breathing is common at the 2So Till-] MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR LIFE INSURANCE. Kalse vs. true. in incipient phthisis, and in all conditions in which there is col-lapse of lung tissue. Cog-wheel Breathing.—Much stress has been laid on thisas a symptom of early phthisis, but great care should be takento eliminate causal factors other than tuberculosis. This is par-ticularly necessary in life insurance work because the nervousnessso frequently present in an applicant produces marked distur-bances of the hearts action, irregular and unequal inspiration, anduneven muscular contraction. All these factors may producecog-wheel breathing, and in order to be of importance, it should.
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