A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes.

  • Holmes, John Pocock.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and which are most conveniently and securely exhibited by the method in ques- tion. Hence it follows, that the reader should not expect any thing more, in way of detailed account of symptomatology, than brief notices of the more remarkable and prominent features of disease : nor are these brief sketches necessary to the plan, further than to establish the fact of the existence of a particular complaint, in order to connect with the cases in the hook the power of the remedy in such complaint generally. An apology, if apology for not entering more deeply into the subject were neces- sary, might readily be found by the author in the well-known fact, that the pathology, causes, symptoms, and morbid appear- ances, of affections of the heart and lungs have been so fully described, that little remains to be added, at least in the pre- sent state of science. Hence, any attempt at a full history of those topics would have rendered this work, in great part, a tedious