Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis . sesuffering from some chronic affection such as heart disease, nephritis,malignant disease, diabetes, etc., it is one of the most frequent causesof death. 430 DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI, LUNGS, PLEURA, AND DIAPHRAGM (e) Still another form of the disease is the so-called inhalation ordeglutition pneumonia. In health the sensitiveness of the larynx pre-vents the passage of food and drink into the trachea and bronchi. If,however, the larvnx becomes insensitive as the result of the narcoticeffect of alcohol,ether or chloroform or as the
Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis . sesuffering from some chronic affection such as heart disease, nephritis,malignant disease, diabetes, etc., it is one of the most frequent causesof death. 430 DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI, LUNGS, PLEURA, AND DIAPHRAGM (e) Still another form of the disease is the so-called inhalation ordeglutition pneumonia. In health the sensitiveness of the larynx pre-vents the passage of food and drink into the trachea and bronchi. If,however, the larvnx becomes insensitive as the result of the narcoticeffect of alcohol,ether or chloroform or as the result of stupor or un-consciousness, such as occurs in uremia, apoplexy, etc., food or drink orseptic material may be aspirated into the lungs and set up a very severeform of broncho-pneumonia (Fig. 276). Aspiration, pneumonia may also follow the inhalation of materialfrom a bronchiectatic cavitv, a tuberculous cavity or it may occur as asequel to a large hemoptysis. This form of the disease not infrequentlyfollows operations about the nose, mouth or
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