THE

CYCLOPEDIA

OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE:

COMPRISING

TREATISES ON THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES, MATERIA MEDICA
AND THERAPEUTICS, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, ETC., ETC.

EDITED BY

JOHN FORBES, M.D. F.R.S.

PHYSICIAN TO THE QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD, ETC.

ALEXANDER TWEEDIE, M.D. F.R.S.

PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, AND TO THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, ETC.

JOHN CONOLLY, M.D.

LATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE IN THE LONDON UNIVERSITY, PHYSICIAN TO
THE HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM, ETC.

THOROUGHLY REVISED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BY

ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M.D.

PROFESSOR OF INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE IN JEFFERSON COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA,
LECTURER ON CLINICAL MEDICINE AT THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, ETC.

• Hæc demum sunt quæ non subgessit phantasiæ imaginatricis temeritas sed phænomena practica

BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY

IN THE

FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by

LEA AND BLANCHARD,

in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

J. FAGAN, STEREOTYPER.

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

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