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Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng].

  • Malcolm Flemyng
Date:
1763
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Credit: Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4° ] caufe I have advanced nothing decifive “ in it.” The reader is here earneftly intreated attentively to confider the fcope thereof, as declared in my own words: “ I only propofe in this paper to “ fet forth the arguments on both ddes “ in the faired: and rnoft impartial man- “ ner; leaving the reader to judge for himfelfr and (hall conclude with fome <c practical inferences, which may feem fairly deducible from what is previouf- “ ly laid down.” It is the duty of a ra¬ tional phyfician, who undertakes every cafe that occurs, to fettle this point with¬ in his own mind, to wit, whether Ad- heiions of the Lungs to the Pleura affedt Relpiration, fo as to create or encreafe Dyfpnoea, or not; becaufe his condudt in the treatment of that fymptom mud: be regulated accordingly ; that is, it mud: be affedted differently, as he favours this or that fide of the queflion. There is no neu¬ trality to be obferved here; one of the fides he mud: choofe. And therefore, to lay before the reader the arguments pro and con. impartially, mud: be of fome ufe and importance: and no writer, that I know of, had ever attempted to do this before. Perhaps the difpute cannot be decided with abfolute clearnefs and cer¬ tainty. But even in that cafe, the pru¬ dent