The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D.

  • Potter, J. Hamilton.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Prompted by a desire to study as fully as possible the clas3 of diseases treated of in the following pages, the author was sometime since induced to visit Europe, where superior hospital advantages are enjoyed, and private instructions given by the most eminent physicians upon special diseases, Auscultation, Percussion, &c, &c. Having availed himself of these and other advantages in the colleges and hospitals of Paris, Brussels, Lon- don, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and several other cities, he re- turned to his native country, rejoicing in the belief that the pro- gress of consumption, bronchitis and other diseases of the chest, and diseases of the throat can be arrested by the hand of Science. Under this belief he determined to devote special attention to the treatment of those diseases. He has hurriedly prepared this little work, during detached moments snatched from his profes- sional engagements, and presents it to his patients, friends, and the public—to whom the work is respectfully dedicated—with the sincere hope that it may be instrumental in averting the rav- ages of the peculiar scourges of our climate. The author cor- dially invites just and candid criticism. Philadelphia, Nov., 1840.