Pulmonary consumption, pneumonia, and allied diseases of the lungs : their etiology, pathology and treatment, with a chapter on physical diagnosis / by Thomas J. Mays.

  • Mays, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1846-1918.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption, pneumonia, and allied diseases of the lungs : their etiology, pathology and treatment, with a chapter on physical diagnosis / by Thomas J. Mays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. In the present era of rapid bookmaking the author feels that no one is justified in imposing another volume on the medical public, unless he has good grounds for doing so; and this is especially true of a work, the subject of which has been so critically discussed and analyzed by many em- inent writers. Then, too, it may at first sight appear start- ling that a book should be written, the animus of which is to show that a certain class of diseases, which have always been regarded as pure lung afl:ections, are originated by causes lying almost entirely exterior to the respiratory organs; yet after one has devoted nearly thirty years to the conscientious study of a single line of thought it is nat- ural that ideas and convictions should be developed and formed which are not in exact accord with orthodox teaching—and it is for the purpose of bringing these views more prominently before the medical profession that the author has decided to essay the present venture, feeling certain that it will receive thoughtful and respectful consideration from those to whom it is addressed. The fundamental concepts of the work may be formu- lated into the following propositions: 1. That pulmonary phthisis in the large majority of cases is primarily a neurosis, and that the pulmonary disintegra- tion is secondary; 2. That any agent, influence, or condition which under- mines the integrity of the nervous system will engender pulmonary phthisis, or some other form of pulmonary dis- order;