THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; AND ON THE LOCAL MEDICATION OF PHARYNGEAL' AND LARYNGEAL DISEASES FREQUENTLY MISTAKEN FOR, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, PHTHISIS. BY JOHN HUGHES BENNETT, M.D., F.R.S.E., PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; FELLOW AND CENSOR OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH; COPENHAGEN, ETC. ETC. 2311 347 1854 ΤΟ P. C. A. LOUIS, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO THE HOTEL DIEU; PERPETUAL PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, ETC. ETC. MY DEAR SIR : IN the last edition of your admirable work on Phthisis, you observe: "The study of phthisis under the present point of view-that of its curability-has as yet made but little progress, and consequently does not at the present day possess all the interest which ought to belong to a subject of such great importance. In the cases of cure hitherto known, the morbid state has always been very limited in extent, and this limitation has not been the result of any circumstance which, although fortuitous, was still appreciable, and hence more or less easily producible at will in other cases, but the effect, no doubt, of circumstances peculiar to each individual case. The nature of these circumstances is at the present hour utterly unknown, and to the steady investigation of them medical observers should henceforth sedulously apply themselves." (Sydenham Society's Translation, by Walshe, pp. 475, 476.) If, in following out the recommendation thus given, I have been enabled to collect facts which prove that a cure may occasionally take place, although phthisis has existed to a very great extent; and if, from a consideration of |