Lymph-stasis, or, Retardation of lymph, as an element in the causation of disease : especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey.

Date:
1890
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Credit: Lymph-stasis, or, Retardation of lymph, as an element in the causation of disease : especially in regard to scrofula and tuberculosis / by Wayland C. Chaffey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. This little work mainly comprises a Thesis accepted in lieu of the written and clinical examination in medicine for the degree of M.D., London University, 1889. Some copies have already been distributed among members of the medical profession. Nearly a year having elapsed since it was printed, the author has been enabled to make some additional post-mortem examinations, reports of which will be found in the Appendix. Through the kindness of his numerous friends, the author has been permitted to utilise a considerable amount of mate- rial in illustration of the views which he has endeavoured to formulate, and which in general he has entertained for several years past. The author has derived much help by referring to the writings of the late Dr. Moxon in the f Transactions ’ of the Pathological Society of London, and in Wilks’ and Moxon’s f Pathological Anatomy;’ also to Niemeyer’s ‘ Lectures on Phthisis,’ issued by the New Sydenham Society, 1860. Reference should also be made to valuable papers by Dr. Joseph Coats, of Glasgow, on the ‘ Nature of Constitutional Susceptibility to Disease,’ published in the