On some of the diseases affecting the voice and respiration : including consumption, asthma, and bronchitis, and those disorders of the throat called inflammatory, spasmodic, and ulcerative with remarks on the curative influence of warm bathing in various diseases intended as a guide for the invalid and general reader / by Alfred King.

  • King, Alfred
Date:
1853
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Credit: On some of the diseases affecting the voice and respiration : including consumption, asthma, and bronchitis, and those disorders of the throat called inflammatory, spasmodic, and ulcerative with remarks on the curative influence of warm bathing in various diseases intended as a guide for the invalid and general reader / by Alfred King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Much has been written on the subject of Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, but it appears to me there is still wanting a short treatise, divested of all professional technicalities, so that the nature, and, to a certain extent, the treatment may be more generally understood. For there is no subject I think, connected with human life, possessing greater clanns to our attention, than that which relates to the nature, and cure of diseases affecting the organs of respiration. Considering therefore, the vital importance of the subject- how imperfectly it is understood by the public and also the difference of opinion respecting its nature and treatment by the medical prog- ression—is the reason why I have been induced to lay these pages before the reader I am frltl T6! tHat S°me °f ^ Prof^W friends will object to the plan of making the public acquainted with some of the diseases to