Six lectures on the functions of the lungs : and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Date:
1859
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Credit: Six lectures on the functions of the lungs : and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Title P- | Introduction IU Letter from Dr. Luther Brigham to Amos Binney, Esq xiii from Dr. Benj. H. West to Dr. Gardner ib. from R. R. Hinman, Esq., late Secretary of State of Connecticut, to Professor Kingsley, of Yale College ib. from R. G. Belt, M. D., to the Hon. Upton S. Heath, U. S. District Judge, Baltimore, Md xiv from J. Hubbard Graves, M. D., to Dr. Wm. D. Buck, of Con- cord, N. H • ib- «' from E. Hatley M'Coy, Esq., to Dr. S. S. Fitch xv '« from John W.Collins, M. D., to Wm. Haslam, Esq ib, Uuestions for Invalids, writing for advice xvi LECTURE FIRST. Uses of the lungs, and causes of consumption P- 19 Four great chambers in the human frame 22 Skull j£ Chest '■ ^ Left lung smaller than the right *9 Impossible to contract consumption when the air passes In and out of each air-cell • >■ Cons jmption is caused by general or partial closing of the air-ceHs ib. Consumption a most curable disease.. - lb- Grand uses of the lungs ^ Uses illustrated ^ Pure air food of the lungs 32 No books teach the true uses of the lungs 3* American Indians in native state do not have consumption 36 Consumption a child of civilization ] 37 Causes of consumption ' Mechanical causes Falling of the bowels .>. >»