Excerpt from On Diseases of the Lungs and Air-Passages: Their Pathology, Physical Diagnosis, Symptoms, and TreatmentI have purposely avoided incumbering my pages with the de tails of remedies and modes of treatment which experience has proved to be undeserving of confidence, and have contented myself with describing the particular methods of treatment which have appeared to me most generally successful, and based upon the soundest physiological grounds.Throughout the work I have availed myself of the labors of my predecessors, and have profited largely by their investiga tions. Whenever I have seen reason to dissent from their con elusions, I have not hesitated to avow it, and have stated the grounds of my opinion. In no other way is it possible to oh tain a full discussion of the principles on which our science is founded, or to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion respecting their merits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.