Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature / By Samuel George Morton.

  • Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Illustrations of pulmonary consumption : its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms and treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature / By Samuel George Morton. 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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    under this head are wholly elementary. But it occur- red to me that even a brief notice of those changes might be acceptable to many whose avenues to patho- logical information have been limited; and especially as the chapter in question embraces some leading fea- tures in morbid anatomy, and principles of general application. I much regret that with respect to the relative ad- vantages of climate in different parts of this country, the details should be so meagre ; but notwithstanding my sedulous inquiries for facts of this kind, I have met with comparatively little success, although I am sensible that many sources of information may have escaped my research. A subject, however, of such paramount interest, cannot remain much longer uninvestigated; and I seize the present occasion to express a hope that the practitioners in various sections of the United States will give more attention to medical statistics, embra- cing especially the mean range of the thermometer, the prevalent diseases, comparative tables of mortality, the changes incident to the progress of cultivation and civilization, and an examination of the question, how far, in these varied localities, phthisis and scrofula appear to be conjoined.