Additional observations on the static lung tests / [William A. Guy].

  • Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885
Date:
[1842?]
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Credit: Additional observations on the static lung tests / [William A. Guy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATIC LUNG TESTS. BY WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GUY, M. B. Cantab. Professor of Forensic Medicine, King’s College, London ; and one of the Physicians to the King’s College Hospital. ( From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 150.) I Naformer number (No. 148) of the Edinburgh Medical and Sur¬ gical Journal, I examined the static lung tests by the aid of a larger number of observations than had previously been made available for that purpose, and I arrived at conclusions extremely unfavour¬ able to the future employment of these tests in medico-legal in¬ quiries. I now proceed to contrast the smaller groups of obser¬ vations, collected by the several authors whose works I have laid under contribution, and to detail a few facts of interest which have come under my own notice. By this means some of the objections which lie against the conclusions contained in my for¬ mer essay may be removed, and such statements as are well- founded may be confirmed. I shall treat the static lung tests in the same order as in the former essay, beginning with the ab¬ solute weight of the lungs. The following table presents the highest, lowest, and average weight of the lungs of mature still-born children, and of children who survived their birth one month or less. The sex is either not stated, or the two sexes are thrown together. A