On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker.

Date:
1866
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Credit: On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PEEFACE. When to any subject a close attention has been paid for upwards of fifteen years of the best part of a man^s life^ even although it be one notoriously the most obscure,, and upon which the greatest differ- ence of opinion prevails amongst the most eminent of our profession^ he may reasonably expect that the conclusions he has arrived at will be received with consideration. With my own lungs and respiratory passages delicately sensitive to atmospheric changes^ and residing in a locality peculiarly favourable for notic- ing the effects of these changes, it would have been a culpable omission to have cast aside such a valu- able opportunity for investigating this most import- ant and interesting subject. In its scientific aspect it is necessarily new, it being but a few years ago—1850—that the British Mete- orological Society was established; and the highest