. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . The phthisical chest. Full-blooded Indian, Philadelpnia Hospital. (Original.) individuals with such a type of chest are more vulnerable to the actionof the tubercle bacillus, and are more liable to contract the a very large number of individuals go through life withsuch chests and die of other diseases. If they are not exposed to theinfection, they will certainly escape the disease. The movement or expansion is lessened, and the respiratory capacity isdiminished. Hid PHYSICAL I>l.\<;sis E DISEA
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . The phthisical chest. Full-blooded Indian, Philadelpnia Hospital. (Original.) individuals with such a type of chest are more vulnerable to the actionof the tubercle bacillus, and are more liable to contract the a very large number of individuals go through life withsuch chests and die of other diseases. If they are not exposed to theinfection, they will certainly escape the disease. The movement or expansion is lessened, and the respiratory capacity isdiminished. Hid PHYSICAL I>l.\<;sis E DISEASES OF THE LUXG. The cans,- of the phthisical chest may he diminution of contents, with Lessening of the extent of air-surface. The Rhaohitic Cheat. Another type of bilateral diminution in size isknown as the rhachitic chest (see Fig. 140), which arises in infancy on. Transverse section of a rhaohitic chest at the level of the sixth thoracic vertebra. Circumference,oil1 g inches ; ri^ht half, 16} g inches ; expansion, 2 inches. account of rhachitis. Many shapes are seen, to which various names havebeen given. Among the more common is what is known as the pigeon-breast. (See Rhachitis, and the Head.) This chest is usually short-ened, and the sternum is much more prominent than in health, the lower Fig. 141. Fig. 142.
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