Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. To which are added, some remarks on the climate of the United States, the West Indies, &c.

  • Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. To which are added, some remarks on the climate of the United States, the West Indies, &c. 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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    cilities of pathological investigation in this institution are unrivalled on the American continent. To these advantages I have added others, derived from an extensive private practice; and have long made it a rule to preserve the histories of my cases, and to avail myself of every opportunity of comparing the opinion I had formed during the life of the patient, with the appearances of the body after death. From a large number of cases thus recorded, I have selected, for this work, such as best serve to give an idea of the various conditions of consumption; and in many instances the cases are further illustrated by coloured plates. On these lithographed illustrations I have bestowed the utmost attention; the preparations from which they were derived, were placed, as soon as obtained, in the hands of an excellent artist, and every character, whe- ther of organization or of colour, was immediately transferred to paper under my personal supervision. In arranging the cases, many of which have chiefly an anatomical interest, I have, as a general rule, en- deavoured to restrict the details to the points under consideration at the time, and to reserve whatever re- lates to the treatment of phthisis, for the last chapter; for it is obvious that unabridged histories of this kind would involve interminable repetitions, and extend the limits of this work far beyond the author's design.