PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS :-

Phthisis commonly fatal, yet curable if regarded in the

early stage-Influence of Laennec's views-Tubercle a

consequence and not the cause

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CHAPTER II.

HISTORICAL SKETCH AS TO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT

THE ANCIENTS :-

OF PHTHISIS.

Views of Hippocrates, Aretus, Galen, Aristotle, Diosco-

rides, and Celsus

THE MIDDLE AGES :

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Views of Trallian, Paulus Ægineta, Avicenna, Forestus,

Paracelsus, Oribasius, Aëtius, Capivaccius, and Avenzoar 13-14

THE MODERNS TO THE TIME OF DR. BAILLIE :-

Views of Bennet, Morton, Desault, Mudge, Gilchrist,,

Tralles, Stark, Portal, and Pearson

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CONSUMPTION

ITS EARLY

AND REMEDIABLE STAGES

BY

EDWARD SMITH, M.D., LL.B., F.R.S.

Assistant Physician to the Hospital of Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton;
Physician to the Royal Dramatic College; Corresponding Member of the Académie des
Sciences, Montpellier, and of the Natural History Society of Montreal.

LONDON:

WALTON AND MABERLY,

UPPER GOWER STREET AND IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1862.

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150. 6.33-
57. l. 169.