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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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