# An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption

Author: Delafield, Edward, 1794-1875

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68772

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## Summary

The attention of Physicians has for several years past been excited to the consideration of that inveterate enemy of the human race, the CONSUMPTION. Several works have been published, new remedies proposed, and the practice of former physicians revived with modifications and amendments, in the treatment of this disease. At one period, Consumption had been so long considered without the reach of remedies, that it had almost ceased to excite the enquiries of the learned in medicine. Fortunately, however, the spirit of enquiry has revived; and it is believed that the treatment of this dreadful malady has been so far improved, that many are rescued from its grasp, and the sufferings of those...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-inaugural-dissertation-on-pulmonary-consumption-68772/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-inaugural-dissertation-on-pulmonary-consumption-68772/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-inaugural-dissertation-on-pulmonary-consumption-68772/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-inaugural-dissertation-on-pulmonary-consumption-68772/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-inaugural-dissertation-on-pulmonary-consumption-68772/chapters/5/index.md)