A treatise on the diseases of the chest, and on mediate auscultation
By: by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the third French edition, with copious notes, a sketch of the author's life, and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases, by John Forbes ... ; to which are added the notes of Professor Andral, contained in the fourth and latest French edition, translated and accompanied with observations on cerebral auscultation, by John D. Fisher ... ; with plates
Contributors: Forbes, John, Sir, 1787-1861; Andral, G. (Gabriel), 1797-1876; Fisher, John D. (John Dix), 1797-1850
Publisher: Samuel S. and William Wood ... ; Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwaite and Co. ...
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 784
Subjects: Lung Diseases; Chest; Thoracic Diseases; Diagnosis; Auscultation; Heart Diseases; Diseases
Work titles: Traité de l'auscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur
Notes: Translation of: Traité de l'auscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur.

Originally published, Paris, 1819, under the title: De l'auscultation médiate; title changed with the second editon to: Traité de l'auscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur.

On t.p. verso: Merriam, Wood and Co., Printers, Springfield, Mass.

Translator abridged and condensed some parts of the French text. Cf. Translator's pref.

References: NUC pre-56.

Exhibited: "The Birth of Clinical Medicine Paris 1794-1848," NLM, Jan.-May 1995.