Excerpt from The Treatment of Pulmonary Consumption: A Practical Manual The present work claims to be a fairly full review, at the time of writing, of the subject of which it treats. For the opinions expressed, the writers have separately and together collated and compared the published works of previous observers, and have endeavoured to put forward only such views as seemed to them to be reasonable and in accord with their own somewhat extensive experience of the disease. They have endeavoured also to steer between the fatal non possumus on the one hand, and the equally dangerous opinion on the other, that the most recently introduced method of treatment or the most widely advertised drug is the specific for consumption. 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.