On cough: its causes, varieties, and treatment : with some practical remarks on the use of the stethoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by Robert Hunter Semple.

  • Semple, R. H. (Robert Hunter)
Date:
1858
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Credit: On cough: its causes, varieties, and treatment : with some practical remarks on the use of the stethoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by Robert Hunter Semple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Having devoted considerable attention to the Diseases of the Kespiratory Organs, I have thought that a work upon the various pathological causes which give rise to the action of Coughing, and upon the treatment suitable to each case, would not be unacceptable to the Profession. I need scarcely assert that nothing is further from my object than to propose any panacea for this trouble- some affection. On the contrary, I have shown that its causes are numerous and varied, and that its treat- ment must often be founded upon the most opposite principles. Believing that Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology are the bases of legitimate medicine, I have divided the book into three principal sections. In the first, the Anatomy of the parts concerned in Cough is briefly described; in the second, the Physiology of that affection is explained; and in the third, the Pathological condition of the organs and tissues in those diseases which are characterised by Cough, is successively detailed, and the treatment of each case is deduced from the morbid manifestations which give rise to it. The results of Auscultation and Percussion having thrown a flood of light upon the nature of those thoracic diseases which are necessarily included in the plan of my work, I have thought it necessary to introduce some practical remarks upon the aid afforded by these methods of diagnosis ; and it must be understood, that (although ft