A practical treatise on the diseases of the respiratory organs : including diseases of the larynx, trachea, lungs and pleura / by Charles J.B. Williams . With numerous additions and notes by Meredith Clymer.

  • Williams, Charles J. B. (Charles James Blasius), 1805-1889.
Date:
1845, ©1844
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the respiratory organs : including diseases of the larynx, trachea, lungs and pleura / by Charles J.B. Williams . With numerous additions and notes by Meredith Clymer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN EDITOR. The popularity of the Essays on the Diseases of the Organs of Respiration, contributed by Dr. Williams to the “ Library of Prac¬ tical Medicine,” edited by Dr. Tweedie, has induced the Ameri¬ can publishers to present them in a separate form to the medical public. Written several years subsequently to the “ Lectures on the Diseases of the Chest,” they embody the more mature expe¬ rience of the author, besides being presented in a more available form. In issuing them as a separate publication, various additions be¬ came necessary. The whole work has been carefully revised from the Lectures of Professor Williams on these Diseases, which have just been completed in the London “Medical Times.” Much new matter has been added to every section, and several new chapters introduced. In doing this the Editor has endeavoured to maintain as far as possible the practical and authoritative character of the work ; and he has sought to add not so much that which was new, as that which was valuable, and had received the sanction of the profession. A constant familiarity with the hospitals of Europe and this country for many years, and his con¬ nection for some time with one of the largest medical institutions of this country—the Philadelphia Hospital—have given him a practical acquaintance with the subject matter, and enabled him to verify the truth of the statements of the various authorities in this department of internal pathology. His additions will be found inclosed in brackets, thus [ ].