[Some observations made by Dr. Duncan in his lecture on the pathology of respiration on the 31st of March 1824].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1824
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    As Dr Duncan sen. has been informed that some observe, tions which he made in his Lecture on the Pathology of Res- piration, on the 31st of March 1824, have been mcorrectly reported by some of his hearers, he has judged it advisable to put them in print, in the words in which they were actually delivered. Beginning of the Lecture. Gentlemen, « In treating of the pathology of Respiration, I have al- teady ^ven some view of the morbid conditions to which that function is subjected. I come next to speak of the causes by which these morbid states are produced, and of the remedifis by which they are to be combated. ' ' ' « In the Institutiones Pathologic^ of Dr Gaubius, a work I have often recommended to your attention^ you will find a very lull enumeration of the causes of difficult Respiration; but they are not arranged in an order which serves to point out the general principles upon which they operate. -These causes, liowever, have been judiciously arranged by my eminent pre- decessor in this Chair Dr Cullen, who has thrown them m- to the form of a table. From his table, the view which I now propose to give, is ahnost entirely taken. « In the arrangement, which you will find printed in my Heads of Lectures, I have, indeed, made some few inconsi- derable alterations from Dr Cullen's plan. In these, my sole object has been to render that view somewhat more simple; perhaps, however, at the expence of rendering it less complete. But to compensate this, I have also reprinted, in my Heads of Lectures, at fuU length, the tabular view of the causes of difficult Respiration, given by Dr Cttllen to his Students in 1768; and I hope you wUl bestow upon it an attentive co isideration in private. But in the remarks Vbp.''* ' ^% I shall follow the arrangement which, in Store I^^?'^^''^^^^ Lectures, I have subjoined to that of Dr 32574 r