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Excerpt from The Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of the Diseases of the Chest To supply the wants of his class, and of others who felt an interest in the subject, the author published, in the year 1835, a short treatise on the Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases, embodying what was most im portant in reference to the physical and general signs; this manual did not include the treatment, and was found upon experience to be less complete than was desirable. At the request of many of his pupils, he published a series of lectures during the years 1840 - 1, in the Medi cal Examiner, which, with some additional lectures, were collected into the first edition of the present work. The form of lectures in the first edition was retained as the most convenient; some of them were condensed by a careful hand from the oral lectures of the author; the greater part, however, were written by himself, forming the substance of the course. They necessarily were less full than the lectures as delivered, and the illustrations were of course excluded; but they comprised the most important parts of the subject, such as are most worthy of being remembered, and seem essential to a knowledge of the subject. In the present edition the work is divided into the usual form of chapters, arranged according to the subjects of which they treat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.