On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker.

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1866
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    departments I have at any time availed myself of the labours of others^ I trust that on each occasion they have been recognized; and with regard to the treatment or alleviation of these diseases^ which should be the end and aim of all our investigations^ I have been led to this by a necessary sequence^— that is_, from causes to effects,, and from these to their remedies; whilst with the latter I have blended the practical experience of upwards of twenty years. Upon every subject^ however, and in every part, I have aimed at brevity, keeping at the same time steadily in view the object of the work, viz. to illus- trate the causes of lung-diseases both sporadic and e])idemic, which in these climates are of all others the most frequent and fatal; and my only fear is that, from the very simplicity of these causes, they will fail to convince, yet this condition is almost invariably associated with every great and general result. In the body of the work I have explained how I have been inductively led to my conclusions,—1st, by a constant observation of the causes of coryza, which any one, by the simplest attention, may verify for themselves ; and it should be borne in mind that it is not merely the normal atmospheric changes that produce these diseases, but likewise those much greater fluctuations to which, by a somewhat artificial mode of living, we are in winter so fre-