CTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH CAL MEDICINE. BY 18 M. LATHAM, M.D.. THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, AND NOTHE LONDON: PRINTED FOR REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1836. LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH CLINICAL MEDICINE. BY P. M. LATHAM, M.D.. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, AND LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1836. PREFACE. THE Lectures contained in this volume are the first of a series which I am engaged in giving to the Students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It is, however, no part of my duty, as one of the physicians to St. Bartholomew's, to deliver lectures. The obligations of my office are limited to the wards of the Hospital; where my business is to attend the sick, and to aid the studies of those who seek the knowledge of disease at the bedside of the patient. But, since there are many things which must be first understood, in order that our inquiries at the bed-side may be pursued more profitably, I have thought that the practical student had a further claim upon me for any information I could afford him which might be necessary or conducive to his purpose. And thus I have been |