Excerpt from The Medical Record, Vol. 18: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; July 3, 1880-December 25, 1880 Physical examination in first case made the diagnosis very clear, and it was, that the patient had empyema, with spontaneous opening. The opening was rather lower than us occurs in spontaneous thoracentesis, which may be hind or in front, but in the majority of cases at the latter point. The heart was pushed over to the right side considerably. The left side was retracted. 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.