This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of the chest movements, in cases occurring within the limited area of my practice. Another important result of the mode in which the information has been acquired is the fact that it has thus been possible to watch the subsequent progress of the cases. The result of the illness has been ascertained in a much larger ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of the chest movements, in cases occurring within the limited area of my practice. Another important result of the mode in which the information has been acquired is the fact that it has thus been possible to watch the subsequent progress of the cases. The result of the illness has been ascertained in a much larger proportion of cases than could have been accomplished in ordinary out-door hospital practice. I am thus able to give in most instances both the duration of the malady from its supposed commencement, and the length of life after the taking of the stethometric measurements. It is indeed essential to the method that we are now considering that it should be possible to obtain the afterlife history of the cases whose chest measurements have been recorded. They have to be ranked in one or the other group, according to their actual longevity. It will then be apparent whether any conclusions we might be inclined to draw from peculiarities in the chest-movements are or are not justified by their final issue. It will be found that a large number of the cases recorded are chronic in their character. This fact is partly due to the social grade from which the examples are chiefly drawn, partly perhaps to the favourable character of the locality in which most of these persons have lived. Many of them have in fact been imported into this place, owing to the reputation that Bowdon enjoys of being favourable to recovery from chest complaints. In consequence of the social position of the patients, in most of the chronic cases my own diagnosis has been confirmed by other physicians, and in several of the instances of long after-life I have been able to rely for their previous history upon the testimony of eminent medical men whom they had consulted in the early sta...
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