THE

ELEMENTS OF PROGNOSIS

IN

CONSUMPTION.

WITH

INDICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.

BY

JAMES EDWARD POLLOCK, M.D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIAN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION
AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL
SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OF THE HARVEIAN
SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, IRELAND; FORMERLY
PHYSICIAN TO THE WESTERN GENERAL DISPENSARY; PHYSICIAN TO THE
QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY; SOCIO DELL' ACCADEMIA

DEI QUIRITI OF ROME.

'Pulmonary consumption is no more than a fragment of a great constitutional malady which it would be vain to think of measuring by the stethoscope, and which it belongs to a higher discipline than any mere skill in auscultation rightly to comprehend.'

LATHAM.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

157. m. 18.

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