Excerpt from Consumption Forestalled and Prevented
Several reasons have induced the Author to write, or rather compile, this little book, some of which will be enumerated in this Introduction.
The work is designed, not so much for the Medical Profession (which the writer deems himself by no means competent to instruct), as For general readers.
Pulmonary Consumption is the great ravager in our climate.
The late Dr. James Johnson, of London, said, "Pulmonary consumption alone is computed to carry off fifty-five thousand British subjects annually, or, cause one fifth, or sixth, of the whole mortality."
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