Essays on consumption : together with some clinical observations, and remarks on pneumonia.

  • Squire, J. Edward (John Edward), 1855-1917.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Essays on consumption : together with some clinical observations, and remarks on pneumonia. 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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    AUTHOR'S PREFACE. In collecting into one Volume some of the Papers and Articles which I have at various times read before the Societies or published in the medical journals, I have to acknowledge my obligation to the Council of the Epidemiological, Royal Medical and Chirurgical, and Pathological Societies, and to the editors of the various journals who have kindly given permission to reprint those which have already appeared in the Press. In selecting the papers I have endeavoured, without materially altering the original text, to present a fairly connected summary of the aetiological factors of Consumption which serve to guide us in formulating preventive measures, and to indicate these measures. The relative importance which belongs to the different etiological factors is, however, not pre- served, since undue prominence is naturally here given to those points which I have made the a ;j