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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    ets invariably are. You will find that they are clearly arranged, and that all his conclusions have been logically deduced. In fact,- from what I have seen of Dr. Fitch, I am satisfied you will deem his acquaintance in the highest sense agreeable. I am, dear sir, yours with much esteem, J. Hubbard Gbaves. Copy of a letter from E. H. MCmj, M. D., to Dr. S. S Fitch. Karrisville, Harrison County, Ohio, July 1st, 1850. Dr. S. S. Fitch: Dear Sir,—I received your favor of June the 12th, and repaired to the city of Wheeling, to your Agent, Mr. Mel'on, from whom I obtained your Six Lectures on the Lungs, breathing tube, &c. I found your Lectures of such absorbing interest that I did not leave my office until I had devoured the Book. 1 have reperused it several times with increased interest. In- deed, J have learned more from this small volume on those subjects, than from all my twenty years readins besides. I regard your book as shedding a flood of new light on this department of inquiry. I have been much interested with what you call the mechanical treatment of chest diseases. Your medical treatment I wish very much to learn. You refer in your Lectures to a work you were preparing for the use of the pro- fession, that work I want immediately. I could net hear of it in Wheeling. If it is out I wish you to inform me. and where I can get it. If its weight does not exceed three pounds, I would be much obliged if you would forward me a copy by mail and 1 would remit the money immediately. If you can- not send it hy mail, please forward me one to your Agent, Mr. Mellon, of Wheeling. Please let me hear from you again, in connection with this deeply interesting subject, and accept assurances of high esteem, &c. &c. E. Halley M'Cot. Copy of a letter from John W. Collins, M. D., to Wm. Haslam, Esq. Hopkinton, R. I., January 23, 1851. Wv. IT*si.am. Esa: Dear Sir.—I have been personally acquainted for some years with Dr. S. S. Fitch, author of Six Lectures on the Uses ofthe Lungs, &c. I have had a fair opportunity of witnessing the results of Dr. Fitch's practice in Pul- monary and other diseases, and must say, I have great confidence in the Doctor as a very useful physician, aud honest man. John W. Collins. M. D. [Doctor Collins is a very experienced, respectable, regular practitioner ot medicine]