PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE; PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. L311.3 R58 1873 ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY AS A MEANS OF DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS IN PHTHISIS. INTRODUCTION. Two reasons influence the author to publish this second edition. First and chiefly because since the publication of the first edition our knowledge of phthisis has extended, so that it has become necessary to modify the phraseology to suit the altered pathological views. Thus, when the first edition was written, all forms of phthisis were considered to be due to two forms of tubercle, miliary or grey tubercle and yellow tubercle. At that time catarrhal or scrofulous pneumonia was not recognized. The lung induration forming that kind of phthisis now called fibroid lung was at that period attributed always to tubercle, and was supposed to indicate an effort to heal the destruction caused by it, indeed regarded as cicatrized tissue. The second reason is that my little book has been curiously misread or perverted. It would seem indeed that some authors who have cited my views can hardly have read my book. Thus to select one instance from several:-Dr. Bathurst Woodman in his excellent translation of Wunderlich on Temperature says "I am loth to differ from Dr. Ringer but if I understand B |