A practical treatise on the principal diseases of the lungs, considered especially in relation to the particular tissues affected, illustrating the different kinds of cough / by G. Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A practical treatise on the principal diseases of the lungs, considered especially in relation to the particular tissues affected, illustrating the different kinds of cough / by G. Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    logy in general of the doctrine of the tissues, first hinted at by Dr. Carmichael Smith, and afterwards more fully developed by Bichat, the researches of men eminent in other de- partments of medical science, have con- tributed to a correct knowledge of pulmonary diseases, by confirming that which is deducible from the homogeneity and mutual dependence of tissue, symptom, and therapia. The progress made towards a more accurate acquaintance with the diseases of the chest, derived from the invention of the stethoscope, is now uni- versally admitted. This we owe to Laennec. The seat of tubercles has lately been ably elucidated by the anatomical labours of Dr. Carswell; and that of croup has been not less correctly defined by M. Bretonneau — a writer who, by his recent investigations, has thrown more light on the pathology of this disease, than any that has preceded him. Of the result of these investigations, the Author has freely availed himself, from their not being generally known in this country. 36 George Street, Hanover Square, 7th February, 1837.