Excerpt from The Diseases of the Chest Including the Principal Affections of the Pleurae Lungs, Pericardium, Heart, and Aorta IN the present volume an attempt has been made to set out in a systematic and concise form the principal diseases of the chest. The book is primarily intended for the use of students, but the Author hopes that it may be not without value to practitioners and others who may desire to recall to memory the chief known facts about the various diseases of the thoracic viscera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.