...me, from carefully comparing the history of my patients with the appearances on dissection, that tlu. greater number of those first attacks are mistaken...to impress the memory of the patients themselves."* We venture, however, to express our firm belief that the disease would be more frequently detected...

...anatomical grounds, it has frequently appeared quite clear to me, from carefully comparing the history of my patients with the appearances on dissection, that...to impress the memory of the patients themselves." I am satisfied, from my own observation, that Laennec's opinion is* correct. Tuberculous disease of...

...anatomical grounds, it has frequently appeared quite clear to me, from carefully comparing the history of my patients with the appearances on dissection, that...with any symptom sufficient to impress the memory of die patients themselves."* We venture, however, to express our firm belief that the disease would be...

...physical signs, as well as the rational symptoms, may be obscure, indistinct, or even absent. When they are so, repeated examinations of the chest should...memory of the patients themselves." If this opinion of Laennec is true, it seems very important that the physician should be able to detect the disease...

...Laennec says — "It has frequently appeared quite clear to me, from carefully comparing the history of my patients with the appearances on dissection, that...greater number of those first attacks are mistaken for colds." (p. 334.) And again — "It is no donbt true that in most consumptive cases the first symptoms...

...appeared quite clear to me, from care" fully comparing the history of my patients with the appear" ances on dissection, that the greater number of those first "attacks are mistaken for colds." (page 334.) Professor Hughes Bennett, in 1859, published a work on the lungs, from which I...