The pathology, clinical history and diagnosis of the affections of the mediastinum, other than those of the heart and aorta : with tables giving the clinical history of five hundred and twenty cases / by Hobart Amory Hare.

  • H. A. Hare
Date:
1889
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Credit: The pathology, clinical history and diagnosis of the affections of the mediastinum, other than those of the heart and aorta : with tables giving the clinical history of five hundred and twenty cases / by Hobart Amory Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL HISTORY AND DIAGNOSIS or AFFECTIONS OF THE MEDIASTINUM. Notwithstanding the constant appearance of works purporting to give us a thorough insight into the diseases of the human chest, it is a fact worthy of remark that but few of them make more than a passing mention of those affections with which this essay deals. At the present time, when every day brings forth the result of some new research as to the functions or affections of each and every organ of the body, one would have thought that scarcely any stone of the human structure could have been left unturned; yet a very brief and casual glance at the litera- ture of diseases of the mediastinum shows that, for some unac- countable reason, this subject has remained a field in which but few workers have toiled, and whose surface is therefore almost barren. Why the medical profession has passed by this most important area in our bodies is beyond the writer's understand- ing, unless it be that, among all the fatal ills that flesh is heir to, diseases affecting this space are fortunately of comparatively rare occurrence. It would be difficult, too, to discover any por- tion of the human body on which so little has been written of real value, and whose literature, meagre though it be, reaches from