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Volume Iii.

DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY, CIRCULATORY, AND HÆMATOPOIETIC SYSTEMS.

PHILADELPHIA: LEA BROTHERS & CO. 1885.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by

LEA BROTHERS & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Philada.

WILLIAM J. DORNAN, Printer, Philada.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. PAGE LARYNGOSCOPY AND RHINOSCOPY. By CARL SEILER, M.D. . . . . . . . . 19

DISEASES OF THE NASAL PASSAGES. By HARRISON ALLEN, M.D. . . . . . 41

NEUROSES OF THE LARYNX. By HOSMER A. JOHNSON, M.D., LL.D. . . . . 59

ACUTE CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS (FALSE OR SPASMODIC CROUP). By ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

PSEUDO-MEMBRANOUS LARYNGITIS. By ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . . . 100

DISEASES OF THE LARYNX. By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . 109

DISEASES OF THE TRACHEA. By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . 133

TRACHEOTOMY. By GEORGE M. LEFFERTS, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . 145

DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI. By N. S. DAVIS, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 164

BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. By W. H. GEDDINGS, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

HAY ASTHMA. By W. H. GEDDINGS, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

DILATATION OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES, CIRCUMSCRIBED AND DIFFUSED. By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

EMPHYSEMA. By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

COLLAPSE OF THE LUNG (ATELECTASIS). By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . 250

CONGESTION AND OEDEMA OF THE LUNGS (HYPOSTATIC PNEUMONIA). By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

HÆMOPTYSIS. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

PULMONARY APOPLEXY. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 293

ABSCESS OF THE LUNG. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 296

GANGRENE OF THE LUNG. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 301

CROUPOUS PNEUMONIA. By ALFRED L. LOOMIS, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 307

CATARRHAL PNEUMONIA. By WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . 353

PULMONARY EMBOLISM. By BEVERLEY ROBINSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 373

PULMONARY PHTHISIS (FIBROID PHTHISIS OR CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA). By AUSTIN FLINT, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

SYPHILITIC DISEASE OF THE LUNG. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . 447

PNEUMONOKONIOSIS. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 454

CANCER OF THE LUNGS. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 460

PULMONARY HYDATIDS. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 466

ACUTE MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS. By JOHN S. LYNCH, M.D. . . . . . . . 472

DISEASES OF THE PLEURA. By FRANK DONALDSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . 483

DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.

DISEASES OF THE SUBSTANCE OF THE HEART. By WILLIAM OSLER, M.D. . 601

ENDOCARDITIS AND CARDIAC VALVULAR DISEASES. By ALFRED L. LOOMIS, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

CYANOSIS AND CONGENITAL ANOMALIES OF THE HEART AND GREAT VESSELS. By MORRIS LONGSTRETH, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

CARDIAC THROMBOSIS. By BEVERLEY ROBINSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 718

NEUROSES OF THE HEART. By AUSTIN FLINT, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 747

DISEASES OF THE PERICARDIUM. By J. M. DACOSTA, M.D., LL.D. . . . 769

THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF PERICARDIAL EFFUSIONS. By JOHN B. ROBERTS, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

DISEASES OF THE AORTA. By G. M. GARLAND, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 800

DISEASES OF THE CORONARY, PULMONARY, SUPERIOR MESENTERIC, INFERIOR MESENTERIC, AND HEPATIC ARTERIES, AND OF THE COELIAC AXIS. By ELBRIDGE G. CUTLER, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

DISEASES OF THE VEINS. By ANDREW HEERMANCE SMITH, M.D. . . . . . 843

THE CAISSON DISEASE. By ANDREW HEERMANCE SMITH, M. D. . . . . . . 854

DISEASES OF THE MEDIASTINUM. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . . . 861

DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND OF THE HÆMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM.

DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND BLOOD-GLANDULAR SYSTEM. By WILLIAM OSLER, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882

DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN. By I. EDMONDSON ATKINSON, M.D. . . . . . 951

DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND. By D. HAYES AGNEW, M.D., LL.D. . . 974

SIMPLE LYMPHANGITIS. By SAMUEL C. BUSEY, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 983

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME III.

AGNEW, D. HAYES, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

ALLEN, HARRISON, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Physiology in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

ATKINSON, I. EDMONDSON, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine and Clinical Professor of Dermatology in the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

BRUEN, EDWARD T., M.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to Philadelphia (Blockley) Hospital; Lecturer on Pathology in the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia.

BUSEY, SAMUEL C., M.D., Attending Physician and Chairman of the Board of Hospital Administration of the Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

CARSON, WILLIAM, M.D., Physician to and Clinical Lecturer at the Cincinnati Hospital, Cincinnati.

CHEW, SAMUEL C., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine in the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

CUTLER, ELBRIDGE G., M.D., Clinical Instructor in Auscultation in the Harvard Medical School; Physician to Out-Patients, Massachusetts General Hospital.

DACOSTA, J. M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

DAVIS, N. S., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Chicago Medical College, Chicago.

DONALDSON, FRANK, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Throat and Chest in the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

ELSBERG, LOUIS, A.M., M.D., Late Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology in the New York Polyclinic and in Dartmouth Medical College; Physician to Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island (Throat Wards), New York.

FLINT, AUSTIN, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.

GARLAND, G. M., M.D., Formerly Professor of Thoracic Diseases in the University of Vermont, and Assistant in Clinical Medicine in Harvard Medical School.

GEDDINGS, W. H., M.D., Aiken, South Carolina, and Bethlehem, N.H.

JACOBI, ABRAHAM, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc.

JOHNSON, HOSMER A., M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Practical Medicine in the Chicago Medical College, Chicago.

LEFFERTS, GEORGE M., A.M., M.D., Professor of Laryngoscopy and Diseases of the Throat in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Consulting Laryngoscopic Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, etc.

LONGSTRETH, MORRIS, M.D., Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

LOOMIS, ALFRED L., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine in the University of the City of New York.

LYNCH, JOHN S., M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.

OSLER, WILLIAM, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; formerly Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in McGill University, Montreal.

PEPPER, WILLIAM, M.D., LL.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

ROBERTS, JOHN B., A.M., M.D., Professor of Applied Anatomy and Operative Surgery in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine.

ROBINSON, BEVERLEY, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.

SEILER, CARL, M.D., Instructor in Laryngoscopy in the University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Acoustics and Vocal Physiology at the National School of Oratory, Philadelphia.

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