Statistical and pathological report of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, for the years 1833, 34, 35, 36, and half of 1837 / by John Home.

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    5 STATISTICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH, FOR THE YEARS 1833, 34, 35, 36, AND HALF OF 1837. BY JOHN HOME, M. D., PRESIDENT OF THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY, PHYSICIAN TO THE NORTH-WESTERN DISPENSARY, &C. (From the Edin. Med. and Sarg. Journal, No. 1340 No. I. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Published bypermissionof theHonourabletlie Board of Managers.] To the Editor of the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, SIR, You are aware tliatthe Managers of the Royal Infirmary, mder the name of Pathological Clerk, whose duty it should be to lerform all the post mortem examinations,—to draw out a parti- ular account of the morbid appearances,—and to insert them in a Journal kept for the purpose, called the Register of Dissections, long with a short history of each case, extracted from the daily oumals. . . The number of cases in the Register now amounts to nearly JOO. I have thought that the result of a statistical analysis of o many fatal cases, principally in reference to their pathology, >ut also in regard to some circumstances of the diseases previous o death, might be advantageously communicated to the profess- ion through the medium of your widely circulated Journal. I hall add some remarks which the great opportunities of the above ,ffice have led me to make, since I was appointed to it in Octo- ict 1833. A !