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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    TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of Dr. S. S. Filch, A. M., M. D., (fronts title-pagu) A—Three views of the human skeleton J. 21 B—View of the skeleton of the trunk of the body 23 C—View of the windpipe, lungs, heart, midriff, stomach, liver, gall bladder, large bowels, small bowels 23 D—View of the windpipe, lungs, air-pipes, and air-cells, heart, and midriff 24 E—View of windpipe, gullet, and natural belts that form the walls of the abdomen 26 F—Consumptive and non-consumptive figures 37 G—Inhaling tube 90 H—A.-thmatic chest ;...,.. G7 1—Consumptive chest jD# Flora Thompson, at 150 years ]fjl K—Stooping female figure 205 L—Front view of the abdominal supporter 204 M—Back view of do. do jD N—View of the figure and inside of the stomach 212 O—Side view of the midriff, stomach, large and small bowels, bladder, and womb o^n P—Same parts fallen down ib Q.—View o/ the liver and gall bladder *2lG R—Falling bowels ««fi S—View of the midriff, kidneys, ureters or water-pipes, large bowel bladder, and womb 'o- Figure of Henry Francisco, at 134 years 288 T—Injurious position of the chest 204 U—Posterior view of the brain, spinal marrow, and laige nerves' that'go between the ribs and so to the arms and lower Hints 325 V—Heart and blood-vessels He*d ol Henrv Jenkins , °