A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at New York HospitalTax Lectures on the Diseases of the Chest were published ten years since, in the New York Lancet, a weekly medical journal existing at that time. Being delivered extempore, and taken in short-hand, although by that excellent stenographer, the late Dr. Houston, then Editor of the Journal, they contained necessarily many imperfections, which, under other circum stances, might easily have been avoided. Soon after their publication, however, in this informal manner, the author re ceived repeated solicitations from his medical friends, that he wouldrevise the Lectures and publish thomin aseparate volume. This request he has complied with in the volume which he now o¿'m's to the medical profession. The whole subject has been carefully revised, and the experience of ten years in Hospital aid in private practice has been added. During most of his professional life the author has kept a register of the most im portant cases of chest disease that have fallen under his notice. And these have been numerous and ofien highly important. He has used them freely in the preparation of the present wk, and is happy in believing that his statements are founded upon registered and carefully observed facts, rather than upon vague recollections. His own opinions are embodied in the text: the opinions of authors, as well as such statistical informa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.