A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with copious notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; from the fourth London edition, considerably enlarged and improved, with many additional notes and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases ; with plates.

  • Laennec, R. T. H. (René Théophile Hyacinthe), 1781-1826.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with copious notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; from the fourth London edition, considerably enlarged and improved, with many additional notes and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases ; with plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Numerous, however, and important as arc the annotations de- rived from the industrious researches of my co-editor, and from the writings of Dr. M. Laennec's zealous and learned country- men, my readers will find themselves under still greater obliga- tions to the eminent pathologists of our own country who have, of late years, so successfully cultivated the fields of auscultation and thoracic pathology; and I must here in a more particular manner express my acknowledgments to my distinguished friends Drs. Carswell, Clark, Hope, Stokes, Townsend and Williams, from whose respective works, published in a distinct form, as well as from their numerous and elaborate communications to the Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, I have derived so much valuable information. Dr. Hope's elaborate and excellent Trea- tise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Dr. Williams's scientific little work on the Signs of the Diseases of the Lungs and Pleura, have been of especial service to me ; and I should not be doing justice to my sense of their importance if I did not strongly recommend them to all who are interested in the subject of the present Treatise. Having, from these and other similar sources, and from the stores of my own experience, done my best, consistently with the prescribed limits of the work, to make good some original defects in the treatise, and to supply the wants which the progress of medical science has created since the date of its first publication, I would fain hope that the present edition may appear to com- petent judges, to present a tolerably accurate and complete view of the actual state of our knowledge of the Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. I may, at least, ven- ture to assure the reader that whatever is found defective in any of these particulars, will be supplied from the sources indicated in the bibliographical references, now for the first time appended to the different articles in the treatise. I will only further add, in conclusion, and as an acknowledg- ment due to the Publisher, that notwithstanding the great quan- tity of additional matter, the expense of engraving new plates, and the superior typographical elegance of the work, it is offered to the profession at a price very considerably below that of the preceding editions. J.F. Chichester, Sept. 15, 1834.