A treatise on the diseases of the chest
Subtitle: in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis, established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments
By: translated from the French of R.T.H. Laennec, M.D., with a preface and notes, by John Forbes
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: James Webster; William Brown, printer)
Published: 1823
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Auscultation; Chest; Diseases; Diagnosis; Heart; Thoracic Diseases
Other titles: Traite de l'auscultation mediate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur; Treatise on mediate ausculation and on diseases of the lung and heart; Laennec on the chest
Work titles: De l'auscultation médiate
Notes: "I have taken the liberty, in the translation, of re-arranging the work throughout,--separating, almost entirely, the pathology from the diagnosis, and arranging the various diseases under the head of the affected organ"--P. 3 (Translator's pref.).

"Notes by the translator": p. [301]-314.

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