A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D.

  • M'Dowell, William A. (William Adair), 1795-1853
Date:
1843
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Credit: A demonstration of the curability of pulmonary consumption : in all its stages. Comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of tuberculous diseases in general / By Wm. A. M'Dowell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. The author of the following essay, necessarily rests his aspirations for its success, exclusively on the in- trinsic merits which it may be found to possess. These merits, whether great or trivial in themselves, could not be magnified into importance beyond their worth, by any specification admissible in the author's own preface. Yet there is a difficulty which he no doubt is not the first to have discovered, in exhibiting some indications to excite the attention of those to whom this subject is most important. There is an- other difficulty no less embarrassing; it is, that an ef- fort of this nature, on which much labor of investiga- tion, and no inconsiderable pains have been bestowed, may be prejudged without being read, particularly when it undertakes to demonstrate that to be practic- able, which in the opinion of the world, is considered impossible. To read is necessarily prerequisite to just apprecia- tion, yet medical publications of the day are so nu- merous, so voluminous, and, withal, so many of them are written more for practice than from it, that but few medical men have leisure to winnow such heaps of chaff, in quest of the modicum of grain which they may contain. The author with neither the initials of titles or stations appended to his name, can have no reason to anticipate a preference over the mass, how-
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